
Class 
Book 



COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT 



EEPOKTS 



speoij?lL ooi^i:mittee 



VOLUNTEERING 



COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 

RELATIVE TO OPERATIONS UNDER CALL DATED 
DECEMBER 19, 1864. 



1864—1865—1866. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

1866. 



NEW YORK: 

THE N. Y. PRINTING COMPANY, PRINTERS FOR THE COUNTY, 

Nos. 81, 83 AND 85 Centre Street. 

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CONTENTS. 



I. The Quota. 
11. The Quota Changed. 

III. Explanation as to the Change in the Quota. 

IV. The Revision of the Quota — Report op the Com- 

mittee APPOINTED to visit WASHINGTON. 

V. Men furnished and Public Funds expended for 
THE War. 

VI. Statement of all Expenditures for the War — 
Report of the County Treasurer. 



THE QUOTA 



UNDER THE CALL OP THE PRESIDENT, DATED DECEMBER 19, 1864, 
FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

DECEMBER 31, 1864. 



The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, in rela- 
tion to the Quota under the call of the President dated December 19, 1864, 
for Three Hundred Thousand Men, was received, and the Ordinance attached 
thereto adopted. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Clerk. 



REPORT. 



To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : 
The County Committee on Yolunteering, respectfully 

REPORT : 

That on the 21st inst., the following proclamation was 
issued by the President, being a call for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men. 

Washington, December 20, 1864. 
t 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, By the Act approved July 4th, 1864, entitled 
" An Act further to regulate and provide for the enroll- 
ing and calling out of the national fordfes, and for other 
purposes," it is provided that the President of the United 
States may. at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call 
for any number of men as volunteers, for the respective 
terms of one, two, or three years, for military service, 
and that in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any 



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town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election dis- 
trict, or of a county, not so subdivided, shall not be filled 
within the space of fifty days after such call, then the 
President shall immediately order a draft for one year to 
fill such quota, or any part thereof, which may be un- 
filled ; and 

Whereas, By the credits allowed in accordance with 
the Act of Congress on the call for five hundred thou- 
sand men, made July 15, 1864, the number of men to be 
obtained under that call was reduced to 280,000 ; and 

Wliereas, The operations of the enemy in certain 
States have rendered it impracticable to procure from 
them their full quotas of troops under the said call ; and, 
whereas, from the foregoing cause, but 250,000 have been 
put into the army, navy and marine corps under the said 
call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency on that call of 
260,000 ; 

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States of America, in order to supply the afore- 
said deficiency, and to provide for casualties in the 
military and naval service of the United States, do issue 
this, my call for three hundred thousand volunteers, to 
serve for one, two or three years. The quotas of the 
States, districts, and sub-districts under this call will be 
assigned by the War Department, through the bureau 
of the Provost-Marshal General of the United States, and 



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in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, town- 
ship, ward of a city, precinct or election district, or of a 
county not so subdivided, shall not be filled before the 
15th day February, 1865, then a draft shall be made to 
fill such quota, or any part thereof, under this call> which 
may be unfilled on said 15th day of February, 1865. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the City of Washington, this 19th day of De- 
comber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand 
[l. s.] eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Indepen- 
dence of the United States of America the eighty- 
ninth. 

(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President, 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 

Under this call the quotas of the several districts have 
now been assigned, and your Committee have just re- 
ceived a copy of the following communication from Brig- 
adier-General J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General, to 
Brigadier-General William Hays, Acting Assistant Pro- 
vost-Marshal General, which will demonstrate the posi- 
tion of the County of New York in respect to its quota 
under the above call of the President for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men : 



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War Department, Provost-Marshal's Office, ) 
Washington, D. C, December 23, 1864. j 

Brigadeer-General William Hays, 

Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen., 

Southern Division, N. F., New York City : 
The quota of your division of New York, under the call of the President 
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is six- 
teen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (16,887). 

This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the 
credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of 
service furnished by one, two, and three years men. 

The quota of the 

First District is 2,686 



Second 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventh 

Eighth 

Ninth 

Tenth 



4,995 
2,610 
1,228 

961 
1,345 

899 



2,1G3 



The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and 
which is to be considered in apportioning the quotas of sub-districts, is 



DISTEICTS. 


TEARS. 


Beins an ex- 
cess of j cars 
service on 
the No. of 
men fur- 
nished. 


First 


4,225 
5,934 
6,596 
9,153 
9,347 
7,705 
9,695 


1,592 
1,808 
3,022 
5,382 
5,376 
4 220 


Second 


Third 


Fourth • 


Fifth 


Sixth 


Seventh 


5 456 


Eirrhth 




Ninth 






Tenth 


3,846 


1 572 







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In order to equalize this credit, it will be added to the quota of the dis- 
trict in gross, and distributed among the sub-districts, according to the 
number enrolled in each. 

This wiU give the quota of the sub-district increased by the excess in pro- 
portion to the number enrolled ; but as the number of one, two and three 
years men respectively, have been furnished without regard to the number 
enrolled, the Provost-Marshal will subtract from the gross quota the actual 
amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has fiu-nished. 

The inclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- 
districts. 

suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing 
ei-ht (8) sub-districts is one thousand (1,000) men, and that the quota in that 
district under the call of July 18, 1864, was one thousand six hundred 
(1,600), which was filled as follows : 

PERIOD OF SERVICE. 



SUB-DISTRICT. 


Number of men 
furnished. 


3 

o 

o 


;-. 

C3 

o 
o 


EC 

s 

ID 


Total number of 
years service. 


Excess number 
years sei"vicc 
over number 
men. 


Pipgt 


200 
240 
ICO 
200 
180 
240 
140 
ISO 


140 
ISO 

80 
120 
100 
120 

GO 
132 


20 
10 
12 
30 
10 
20 
10 
24 


40 
50 
68' 

110 
70 

100 
70 
24 


300 
350 
308 
510 
330 
460 
290 
252 


100 
110 
148 
250 
150 
220 
150 
72 




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Piftii 


Civth 




Eighth 


Total 


1,600 


932 


136 


582 


2,800 


1,200 




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It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of 
men fiu-nished in the First Sub-district is one hundred (100), in the Second 
one hundred and ten (110), &c., &c. Total in the district one thousand two 
hundred (1,200). 



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The quota of the district under the present call is one thousand (1,000) 
to this add the excess, one thousand two hundred (1,200), making two thou- 
sand two hundred (2,200) ; then as tlie number enrolled in the district, 
twenty thousand (20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to 
its quota, which will be reduced by substracting frota its share of the excess. 

FORMULA. 



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First 


20.000 
20,000 
20.000 


2,200 
2,200 
2,200 


2,400 
2,800 
2,000 


204 
SOS 
220 


100 
110 
148 


164 


Second 


198 


Third 


72 


Fourth 


20,000 


2.200 


3,200 


352 


250 


102 


Fifth 


20,000 
20,000 


2.200 
2,200 


2.200 
2,800 


242 

308 


150 
220 


92 


Sixth 


88 


Seventh 


20,000 
20,000 


2,200 
2,200 


2.000 
2,C00 


220 
286 


150 
72 


70 


Eighth 


214 




20,000 


2,200 


1,200 


1,000 



The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by 
which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the 
amount of credit due them. 



Official. 



(Signed) 



JAMES B. FRY, 
Provost-Marshal General. 
Geoege E. Scott, 

Capt. Yet. Res. Corps. 



By the above it appears that the number of men de- 
manded from the County of New York is four thousand 
four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), apportioned to the 
several districts, as follows : 



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No. of men 
District. Demanded. 

Fourth 1,228 

Fifth 961 

Bixth 1,315 

Seventh 899 

Eighth none. 

Ninth none. 

Total 4,433 



The entire quotas of the several Districts, before the 
deduction of the credits allowed, do not appear in this 
communication, but taking the apportionment of the 
quotas under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) 
men as a basis, we are enabled to ascertain what the 
quotas, under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) 
men, would have been, had they been apportioned in 
the same manner, that is to say, according to the num- 
ber of persons enrolled in each District as liable to duty. 
The figures would have been as follows : 



Districts. 



Call for 
500,000. 



Call for 
300,000. 



Fourth. 

Fifth... 

Sixth... 

Seventh 

Eiiihth., 

Ninth... 



4,071 
3,971 
3,485 
4,239 
4,346 
3,028 



23,140 



2,443 
2,383 
2,091 
2,543 
2,607 
1,81? 



13,884 



And, comparing these quotas in the several Districts 
with the numbers of men demanded from each, we de- 



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termine the exact number of credits allowed in the 
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Districts, and the mini- 
mum number of credits allowed in the Eighth and Ninth 
Districts, to be as follows : 



Districts. 


Entire 
quota. 


Men de- 
manded. 


Credits 
allowed. 


Fourth 


2,443 
2.383 
2,091 
2,543 
2,G07 
1,817 


1,228 
'JGl 

1.345 
899 


1,215 


FiiUi 


1,422 


Sl::tli 

Seventh 


740 
1,614 


Eiii'iith 


2,607 


Niiith 




1,817 










• 13,884 


4,433 


0.451 



But the number of credits due to the County of New 
York is, according to the least liberal computation, over 
sixteen thousand (16.000) in men, and over thirty-two 
thousand (32,000) in years of service. The basis, there- 
fore, upon which the above table is computed — Avhich is 
the same as that of all previous quotas — appears to have 
been abandoned by the War Department, and your Com- 
mittee find in the formula given for the apportionment of 
a district quota among sub-districts (so as to allow to 
each sub-district due credit for Avhatever excess it may 
have furnished over the demand on previous calls, while 
at the same time the whole ntimber of men demanded 
from the district is raised), an explanation of the in- 
genious method by which the Department has fixed the 
quotas under the present call, so as to prevent the allow- 
ance for credits due from diminishino: the number of men 



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actually to be raised under tlie call. The formula given 
is, that as the total enrollment of one portion of the 
country is to its actual quota, plus the excess of years of 
service, so is the total enrollment of any other portion 
of its actual quota plus the excess of years of service. 
The proportion of the total enrollment of New York 
County to the total enrollment of the United States is as 
46,280 to 1,000,000. 

By the application of this formula to the number of 
men demanded from the County of New York, forty-four 
hundred and thirty-three (4,433), plus the excess of years 
of service, thirty-two thousand five hundred (32,500), we 
find that the whole United States must have an excess 
of years of service of no less than four hundred and 
ninety-eight thousand and thirty-four (498,034), or about 
five hundred thousand (500,000). It appears, therefore, 
that the three hundred thousand (300,000) years of ser- 
vice called for by the President's proclamation has been 
added to the five hundred thousand (500,000) years of 
service already furnished in excess of all previous calls, 
and that the sum of eight hundred thousand (800,000) 
years has been apportioned among the several Congres- 
sional Districts, and that by this apportionment, the 
quota of New York is fixed at nearly thirty-seven 
thousand (37,000) years of service, exhausting its surphis 
of thirty-two thousand five hundred (32,500) years, and 
demanding in addition four thousand four hundred and 



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thirty-three men for one year. By this means only is 
the War Department able to secure the number of men 
called for, and at the same time make the allowance 
which it had pledged itself to make to those portions 
of the country which filled calls for one year men 
with men for two and three years. The wisdom of the 
course adopted by the County in recruiting men mainly 
for three years stands vindicated by the result. 

Had no credits been due to this County, the attempt- 
to raise thirty-seven thousand (37,000) men must have 
been abandoned in despair. 

Forutnately, the naval and other credits obtained 
without the payment of bounty by your Committee on 
the last quota have contributed even more to save the 
County from the present Draft than from the last. The 
great majority of these credits wore for the three years 
men, of whom but one year of service was counted on 
the quota under the call for five hundred thousand 
(500,000) men, while on the present quota the remaining 
two years of service are counted. 

Your Committee desire to express their thanks to the 
War Department for the adoption of this method of 
fixing the quota, whereby justice is done to every portion 
of the country without chousing the Government out of a 
single one of those three hundred thousand (300,000) 
men called for by the President. 



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We would state that, though the demand upon ns is 
for four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) 
men that the number of men which we will be com- 
pelled to raise to satisfy the demand is only about three 
thousand five hundred (3,500) men. 

This discrepancy is caused by the fact that allowance 
has only been made by the War Department for men 
enlisted up to and including the 30th of November. 
Since that period, and up to this date, there have been 
raisedof Army Volunteers, Re-enlisted men. Naval Re- 
cruits, Substitutes in anticipation of the Draft, and Rep- 
resentative Recruits, a total of about one thousand (1,000) 
men, and this number we are entitled to have deducted 
from the demand for four thousand four hundred and 
thirty-three (4,433) men, leaving only about three thou- 
sand four hundred and thirty-three (3,433) men to be 
raised. 

But to raise even this small number of men will be 
matter of much labor, and will require a very large 
expenditure of money. The quotas of the several Dis- 
tricts being announced, every effort will at once be put 
forth by districts surrounding this County to raise tlieir 
complement. 

As usual, this County will be the great recruiting 
ground where all will centre to obtain their men. It is 
also natural to suppose that very heavy bounties will be 



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oSered, as hitherto, to secure these men. Either this 
County must give up in despair of filling its quota 
without a Draft, or it must offer a bounty suflScient to 
prevent the surrounding districts taking the men 
from us. 

Your Committee are satisfied that a large bounty will 
be necessary to secure us the number of men needed to 
prevent a Draft. 

There is now in the County treasury, to the credit of 
the Volunteer funds, a sum sufficient only, we think, to 
cover expenditures in raising Volunteers up to this time, 
and to pay the expenses of the gigantic work of correct- 
ing the enrollment. Your Committee have, therefore, 
concluded to recommend and have appended hereto , 
an ordinance providing for the raising of the men de- 
manded of us and appropriating the sum of four millions 
(4,000,000) of dollars to cover the expenses therefor. 

As there exists no Legislative authority for this loan, 
it will have to be placed before the people for subscrip- 
tion solely on patriotic grounds. It is true the Legis- 
lature is about to assemble, but to wait the few days 
necessary to obtain the Legislative authority might be 
fatal, and every moment now is of value, as it will 
require all the time up to the extreme limit of the 
President's call to raise the number of men wanted, even 
at a large bounty. 



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Your Committee believe that they are but expressing 
the feelings of the patriotic citizens of this county, 
whether rich or poor — high or low — whether liable or 
exempt, when they say that no means which labor or 
money can render available, should be spared to save our 
County from the disgrace of a draft. They, therefore, 
recommend the adoption of the ordinance annexed. 

Dated, Dec. 31, 1864. 



ORISON BLUNT, 
WILLIAM M. TWEED, 
ELIJAH F. PURDY, 
C. GODFREY GUNTHER, 



Special 

Committee 

on 

Volunteering. 



C. Corson, Clerk. 



APPENDIX. 



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AN ORDINANCE 

TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TOLUXTEERrf FOR THE ARMIES OF 
THE UNION AS PART AND PARCEL OP THE QUOTA OP THE CITY AND 
COUNTY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE CALL OP THE PRESIDENT, DATED 
DECEMBER 20TH, 1864, FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND (300,000) MEN. 

Tlie Board of Supervisors of the County of New York do ordain as 
follows: 

SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing the additional number of men 
required of the County of New York under the call of the President of 
the United States, dated December 20, 1864, for three hundred thousand 
(300,000) men, the Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to pay, 
as hereinafter provided, such sum and sums of money as may be necessary 
to obtain acceptable volunteers for the United States sernce, either in the 
Army or Navy, not exceeding one thousand dollars for any one Volunteer, 
provided such Volunteer shall be credited and allowed on account of the 
quota of men required to be fm-nished by the Coimty, under such caU of 
the President. 

Sec 2. The money authorized by the preceding section to be paid for 
Volunteers, shall be paid to such Volunteers respectively, at the office of 
the Comptroller, or such other place or places as said Comptroller may 
designate, immediately on said Comptroller being fiu-nished with satisfac- 
tory evidence of their having enlisted and been duly mustered into the 
military service of the United States for the term of their enlistment. 

Sec 3. In order that the Comptroller may be enabled to make the pay- 
ments hereinbefore authorized and to meet the expenses necessarily 
inciured in the execution of this ordinance, he is hereby authorized to 
borrow, from time to time, on the faith and credit of the County of New 
York, a sum not exceeding an aggregate of four millions (4,000,000) of 
dollars, in addition to all loans heretofore authorized under authority of 



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the Legislature or otherwise, for the pm-pose of volunteering, which 
araoimt is hereby appropriated therefor. 

Sec. 4. For the money so borrowed, the Comptroller is hereby aiithorized 
to issue bonds of the County, which shall be designated and known as the 
" Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. — ," and the same shall be transfer- 
able at the pleasure of the holders thereof, cither in person or by attorney, 
only upon the books of the County, at the office of the Comptroller, and 
certificates of such transfers shall be indorsed thereon by the Stock Clerk. 

Sec. 5. The said bonds sliall be signed by the Compti-oller, countersigned 
by the Mayor, sealed with the common seal of the Board, and attested by 
the Clerk of this Board, and they shall bear interest at a rate not exceed- 
ing seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. 

Sec. 6. For the payment of the principal of said bond, and the interes 
to accrue thereon, the faith of tlie Coimty of New York, and the Board of 
Supervisors of said County, is hereby solemnly pledged, and the Comp- 
troller is hereby authorized and required to redeem and cancel the same 
from time to time, at or before their maturity. 

Sec. 7. The Mayor and the Comptroller of the City of New York, and the 
following-named members of this Board, that is to say : Elijah F. Purdy, 
Orison Blunt, William M. Tweed and William R. Stewart, are hereby desig- 
nated and appointed a Committee to procure the enlistment of Volunteers 
authorized by this ordinance, and to secure the counting of the Volimteers 
raised under this ordinance upon the quota of this County. 



THE QUOTA CHANGED. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

JANUARY 25, 1865. 



The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, in re- 
lation to the change in the quota under the call of the President, datfd 
December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand men, was received. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Clerk. 



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REPORT. 



To the EonoraUe the Board of Supervisors : 
The Special Committee on Volunteering respectfully 

REPORT : 

That they have just been advised that the number of 
men called for, in addition to men hitherto furnished 
from the County of New York, under the last call of the 
President, dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men, has been increased from forty- 
four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), as originally called 
for, to nearly twenty thousand (20,000). 

By what piocess this conclusion is arrived at, upon 
what basis of calculation, or under what influences, your 
Committee are not advised. They believed, from the 
assurances of Provost-Marshal General Fry, made to them 
when last in Washington, that the quota of four thousand 
four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) would not be mate- 



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rially changed. This quota tho}'- had nearly filled, and 
the announcement of this enormous increase is as start- 
ling to them as it will be to the people of the County. 



Dated January 24, 1865. 



ORISON BLUNT. 
WM. M. TWEED, 
ELIJAH F. PURDY, 
WM. R. STEWART, 



Committee 

on 

County 

Volunteering 



Cornelius Corson, Clerk. 



EXPLANATION 



AS TO THE CHANGE IN THE QUOTA 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

JANUARY S8, 1865. 



The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, contain- 
ing an explanation of the change in the quota under the President's call, 
dated December 19, 1864, for Three Hundred Thousand Men, was received. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Clerk. 



REPORT. 



To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : 

The Special Committee on Volunteering would re- 
spectfully 

REPORT : 

That, in accordance with the instructions of your Hon- 
orable Body, as per resolution adopted at the meeting 
held on the evening of the 24th inst., the Chairman of 
your Committee at midnight proceeded to Washington. 
Immediately upon his arrival he had an interview with 
Provost-Marshal General Fry, and endeavored to obtain 
an explanation (in accordance with the instructions of 
the Board) of the means by which the quota of this 
County had been raised from four thousand four hundred 
and thirty-three (4,433), as announced by him to Briga- 
dier-General Hays on the 23d ult., to the enormous num- 
ber of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,0 19). 

The Chairman of your Committee was informed that 
this increase in the quota was attributable — 



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First. To the redistribution of the Naval Credits 
claimed by us and allowed. 

Secondly. To reductions in the enrollments of the 
country districts of this and other States, which, by ma- 
terially reducing their proportion of the men to be 
raised, rendered ours comparatively larger. 

Thirdly. By the report of the War Department, be- 
tween the 23d and 31st of December, of men raised pre- 
vious to the 23d of December, who were not considered 
in the first announcement. In some States the Chair- 
man of your Committee was assured that the number 
thus reported was very large. 

These were the only explanations Avhich the Chairman 
of your Committee could obtain of the astounding in- 
crease of our quota. 

Voluminous statistics were presented to him, but 
nothing showing the precise meth-:>d in which the quota 
of this County was arrived at. Full explanations were 
promised through Brigadier-General Hays, but such ex- 
planations have not yet been received. 

This one fact was all that was clear, that the County 
of New York is required to furnish twenty-one thousand 
and nineteen (21,019) men, in addition to all men fur- 
nished and credits obtained up to the 31st ult. ; and the 
Chairman of your Committee was assured that but for 



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the naval and other credits secured by your Committee 
upon the present and the previous call, this County 
would have been obliged to furnish forty-six thousand 
six hundred and sixty-one (46,651) men, instead of twen- 
ty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019). 

The number of men now demanded of the County is 
divided among the several districts as follows : 

Fourth District 4,039 

Fifth " 3,907 

Sixth " 3,023 

Seventh " 3,970 

Eighth " 3,348 

Ninth " 2,732 

Total 21.019 



In arriving at these figures, so far as your Committee 
could learn, the quotas assigned appear to be based upon 
a call for eight hundred thousand (800,000) men, and the 
enormous number of men held to be due from this 
County has been derived from its outrageously excessive 
enrollment. 

Had your Committee, as desired by them, been au- 
thorized by the War Department, two months earlier 
than they were, to undertake the correction of the en- 
rollment, the work would have been finished before the 
present quotas were assigned, and the quota of this 
County would have been reiluced by at least fifteen 
thousand (15,000) men. 



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Annexed to this Report, and mai-ked Appendix A, is 
the new order of the Provost-Marshal General assigning 
the quota of the Southern District of New York. 

Appendix B, also annexed, is a copy of letter to Brig- 
adier-General William Hays, A. A. P. M. General, which 
is the only official explanation yet made of the changes 
in the quota of this district. 

Your Committee hasten to lay these facts before your 
Honorable Body. They believe that there is no escape 
from the demand now made upon us for twenty-one 
thousand and nineteen (21,019) men. The number of 
men enlisting at the present rate of bounty is so small as 
to be almost nothing in comparison with the large num- 
ber required of us. Either the bounty must be largely 
increased, or we must give up in despair of finding any 
means of avoiding a draft. 

Whatever injustice may have been done the County 
in the withdrawal of credits once and justly awarded to 
us, and by delaying that withdrawal until it is almost too 
late to think even of supplying the deficiency thus sud- 
denly thrown upon us, we have now no time to remon- 
strate. 

In order to show clearly the effect of this withdrawal, 
we append (marked C), the letter of Provost-Marshal 
General Fry to Brigadier-General Hays, dated December 
23d, 1864, stating the number of men due from this 



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County to be four thousand four hundred and thirty- 
three (4,433). 

The following shows the number of men demanded of 
each Congressional District of this County by the order 
of December 23d, and that of January 24th, and the in- 
crease in the demand in each district : 



CONGEESSIONAL DISTRICTS. 



Fourth. . 
Fifth.... 
Sixth . . . 
Seventh. 
Eiglith.. 
Ninth. . . 



MEN PEMANDED. 



By order 
of Dec. 23. 



Totals. 



1,228 
9G1 

1,345 
899 



4,433 



By order 
of Jan. 24. 



4,039 
3,907 
3,023 
3,970 
3,348 
2,732 



INCREASE. 



21,019 



2,811 
2,946 
1,678 
3,071 
3,348 
2,732 



16,586 



In making this Report, the duty of your Committee is 
discharged. It is now for your Honorable Body to de- 
termine what course will be most conducive to the inter- 
ests of the people of this County. 

Dated January 28, 1865. 

ORISON BLUNT, ) Special Committee 

WILLIAM M. TWEED, V on ^ 

ELIJAH F. PURDY. ) Volunteering. 



CoKNELius Corson, Clerk. 



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APPENDIX A. 



ICE,i 



War Department, 
Pbovost-Marshal General's Office 
Washington, D. C, Jan. 24, 1865 
Bbigadieb-General Hats, 

Acting AssistarU Provost-Marshal General, 

New York City : 
The quota of the Southern Division of New York, under the call of the 
President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 
1864, is Ti/>enty-eight thousand six hvmdred and thirty-one (28,631). 

This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the 
credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of 
service furnished by one, two, and three years men. 

The quota of the First District is 1,065 

Second District 3,172 

Third District 1,741 

Fourth District 4,039 

Fifth District 3,607 

Sixth District 3,023 

Seventh District 3,970 

Eighth District 3,348 

Ninth District 2,732 

Tenth District 1,934 

28,631 

In tills estimate, the Provost-Marshal General has taken into account all 
credits to which the several districts are entitled on account of men raised 
up to December 31, 1864, including excess under former calls. 



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In order to equalize this credit, tou will miiltiply the quota of the di.^rrict 
by iliree, thus reducing it from a three years to a one year basis. To the 
product, add the excess of years* service, and then distribute this sum to 
the several sub-distriot^ in proportion to the nombox enrolled in each. 

This gives the number of years of service required from each sub-district, 
incxeased by the exc<?ss>. From this number deduct the excess which the 
sub-disirict has actually furnished, and the remainder is the actual number 
of years service required, which, divided by three, gives the acxual number 
of men required fhsm the sub-district under the caiL 

Suppose the quota, under the present call, in a given district containing 
eight (S) sub-districts, is 1.000 men, and that the quota in that district, 
under the call of July IS, 1S&4, was 1,600, which was flUed as follows : 



1st 
2d 

Sd 



TUj 

8ih 



Sub-district. 
Sub-districi- 
S-lw;!~trict. 
rict. 
- rict. 
:-,->. v.. ^;rici- 
Sub-district. 
Sub-district. 

Total 



No. of 
Men 
Fur- 
nished. 



PERIOD OF SERVICE. 



•2CD 
240 
160 
260 
ISO 
240 
140 
ISO 



1.600 



One 

Year. 



140 

ISO 
80 
120 
100 
120 
60 
132 



Two 
Years. 



932 



20 
10 
12 
30 
10 
20 
10 



Three 
Years. 



Total 

yo. 

Years of 
Service. 



40 
60 
68 

110 
TO 

100 
70 
24 



136 



M-: 



510 
330 
460 
290 
252 



2.SC»> 



I Excess 

or Xo. of 

Years" 

Service 

over Xo. 

I of Men. 



100 
ilO 
14-3 
250 
150 
220 
150 



i.:w 



—it win be seen that the excess of years of service over the ntimber of 
men furnished in the 1st sub-district is 100 : in the 2d, 110, Ac, dec. Total 
in the district, 1.200. 



The quota of the district, tinder the present call, is 1.000 ; this, multiplied 
by thr?e (3), gires 3.000 years of service : to this add the excess (UIOO) . 
then, as the number eoroJied in the district (20.000) is :o this sum ;4.200\ 
so is the number enrolled in the sub-dlstrici to the nxmiber of years' service 
required. lncr\?ased by its excess : nxnn walch deduct ihe excess o:" years 



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of service wliich the sub-district has farniohecl, and divide the remainder 
by three (3), to find the quota of the sub-distiicL 





-3 




.■a 




'S^- 




^ 5 






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c3 


"S-S 


=" ST-c 


o s 




wis 


.::i « 


W;= 


O 




O P o 


cf 9 






!--r X 


y 






r.o 














1^ 


"2 t-— CO 


■z ^ 
5-2 




s- 




9 c 


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§ts>. 






ts 


O" 


!a 


o 


W 


^'^ "" 


^ = 


1st Sub-district 


20,000 


4,200 


2,400 


504 


100 


-404 


135 


2d Sub-district 


20,000 


4,200 


2,800 


588 


110 


478 


159 


3d Sub-district 


20,000 


4,200 


2,000 


420 


148 


272 


91 


4th Sub-district 


20.000 


4,200 


3,200 


072 


250 


422 


141 


5th Sub-disti-ict 


20,000 


4,200 


2,200 


462 


150 


312 


104 


6th Sub-district 


20.000 


4,200 


2,800 


588 


220 


368 


122 


7th Sub-district 


20.000 


4,200 


2,000 


420 


150 


270 


90 


8th Sub-district 


20,000 


4,200 


2,G00 


546 


72 


474 


158 


Total 


20,000 


4,200 


20,000 


4,200 


1,200 


3,000 


1,000 



The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a nde by 
which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the 

amoimt of credit due them. 

JAilES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 

XOTE.— This formula to be used instead of the one dated December 23, 

1864. 

Official copy respectfully ftimished for the information of 0. Blunt, Esq., 

Chairman, &c. 

H. F. BROW^SON, 

A. A. G. 



APPENDIX B. 



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War Department, ( 

Pkovost-Marshal General's Office. \ 

Bkigadier-Gexekal William Hays, U. S. V., 

A. A. Provost-Marshal General, 

New York City : 
General : 

I deem it proper to call your attention to certain facts connected with 
the quotas of the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, which have increased 
the number required from the former and diminished that of the latter. 

The quotas assigned to the 23d ultimo were based upon the best informa- 
tion available as to the enrollment of the 30th day of November, and the 
reports of men raised and reported up to that time. Since then material 
changes have been made on the enrollment lists in many localities, and 
full reports received of men and years of service furnished up to January 
1st, embracing not only the enlistments for December ultimo, but in cer- 
tain instances for previous months not hitherto received. 

Another reason is, that a more just and equitable distribution of the one, 
two and three years naval enlistments has been made, by which the 
several districts receive their proper share of two and three years men, as 
well as one year men. 

The report fui-nished to this office gave to New York all the three years 
men and a portion of the one and two years men, and to Brooklyn only 
one year men, and, if adopted and adhered to, would have produced much 
of the inequality that was indicated by the quotas assigned on tlie 23d 
ultimo. 

I am. General, 

Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) J. B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 
[A true copy.] 

H. F. Brownson, a. a. G. 



APPENDIX C. 



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War Department, PRovosT-MiRsaAL's Opfick, * 
Washington, D. C, December 23, 1864. j 

Brigadibii-Gbnbral William Hays, 

Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen.. 

Southern Division, N. Y., New York City : 
The quota of your division of New York, under the call of the President 
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is six- 
teen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (16,887). 

This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the 
credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of 
service furnished by one, two, and three years men. 

The quota of the 

First District is 2,686 



Second 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventh 

Eighth 

Ninth 

Tenth 



4,995 
2,610 
1,228 

961 
1,345 

899 



2,163 



The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and 
which is to be considered in apportioning the quotas of sub-districts, is 






DISTRICTS. 


TEARS. 


Beins ancx- 

cess<(f years 

ser'.'ice on 

the No of 

mc'-i fnr- 

nislied. 


First 


' 4,2'25 
5,934 
6,596 
9,453 
9,347 
7,705 
9, €95 




1 593 


Second 


1,S0B 
3 02'' 


Third 


Fourth 


5,382 


Fifth 




Sixth 


4 "(Oy 


Seventh 




Ei!?hth 




Ninth 






Tenth 


3,846 




1 572 


■ 





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In order to c^iualize fliis credit, it will be added to the cjuota of the dis- 
trict in gross, and distributed among the snb-districts, according to the 
nunil)er enrolled in each. 

This will give the quota of the sub-district increased by tho excess in pro- 
portion to the number enrolled : but as tho number of one, two and three 
years men respectively, have boon furnished without regard to the number 
enrolled, the Provost-Marshal will subtract from the gross quota the actual 
amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has furnished. 

The inclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- 
districts. 

Suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing 
eight (8) sub-districts is one thousand (1,000) men, and that the quota in that 
district under the call of July 18, 18G4, was one thousand six hundred 
(1,C00), which was tilled as follows : 

PERIOD OF SKRTICE. 





c 








^ . 


- O fc< 
























ct 




111 


SUB-DISTRICT. 


c a 


■5 


3 


03 


2 J 


5 '^ c 




Is 

-5 




o 


% 


is 








a 


f: 


J5 


c ''• 


y. ''•- ~ 




"^ 


O 


H 


H 


H 


■^ 


First 


200 
240 
100 
200 
180 
240 
140 


140 

180 
80 
120 
100 
120 
60 


20 
10 
12 
30 
10 
20 
10 


40 
50 
(iS 

110 
70 

100 
70 


300 
350 
308 
510 
330 
4G0 
290 


KiO 


Second 


110 


Third 


1 8 


Fourth 


250 


Fiftli 


150 


Sixth 


220 


Seventh 


150 


Eighth 


180 


132 


24 


24 


252 


T'' 






Total 


1,600 


932 


13G 


582 


2,800 


1,200 



It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of 
men furnished in the First Sub-district is one hundred (100), in the Second 
one hundred and ten (110), Ac, &c. Total in the district one thousand two 
himdred (1,200). 



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The quota of the district under the present call is one thousand (1,000), 
to this add the excess, one thousand two hundred (1,200), making two thou- 
sand two hundred (2,200) ; then as the number enrolled in the district, 
twenty thousand (20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to 
its quota, which will be reduced by subtracting from its share of the 
excess. 



SUB-DISTRICT. 



First... 
Second. 
Third . . , 
Fourth. . 
Fifth... 
Sixth . . . 
Seventh 
Eighth.. 



h 


xcess 
00 by 


• <v 3 


0) o 


•" 2 


.S '-I 


•^Q 


■^ .- 


oj d 






OJTSO 


S'S 


o'5^^ 


S3 « 




^ 


cc 


20.000 


2,200 


20.000 


2,200 


20,000 


2.200 


20,000 


2,200 


20.000 


2.200 


20,000 


2,200 


20,000 


2,200 


20,000 


2,200 






2.400 
2,bU0 
2,100 
3,200 
2,200 
2,800 
2,000 
2,600 



20,000 



264 
308 
220 
352 
242 
308 
220 
286 



2,200 



Sea 



100 
110 
148 
250 
150 
220 
150 
72 



1,200 



fc- -^ Cj 



O i 



'^ 



5-.^ 



164 

198 
7-2 

102 
92 
88 
70 

214 



1,000 



The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by 
which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the 
amoimt of credit due them. 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 
OfficiaL (Signed) George E. Scott, 

Capt. Vet. Hes. Corps. 



THE REVISION OF THE QUOTA, 



REPORT 



COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO VISIT WASHINGTON. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

FEBRUARY 28, 1865. 



The following Keport of the Special Committee appointed to visit Wash- 
ington to obtain an explanation of the change and revision of the quota 
under the call of the President, dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred 
thousand men, was received and directed to be printed. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Glerk. 



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REPORT. 



To the Honorable tJie Board of Supervisors : 

The undersigned, a Special Committee appointed by 
your Honorable Body, by resolution adopted at a meeting 
held January 31, in words following, to Mdt : 

" Eesolved. That Supervisors Blunt, Pardy, Shook, Ely, 
Stewart, Willmann, and Fox be and are hereby appointed 
a committee to proceed to Washington and confer Avith 
the Government authorities, War Department, &c., as to 
the quota of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019) 
men called for by the Provost-Marshal General, under the 
proclamation of the President of the United States of 
December, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) 
men for the armies of the Union"— would respectfully 
present the following 

REPORT : 

• That on the evening of Wednesday, February 1, they 
proceeded to Washington. 



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INTERVIEW WITH THE SECRETARY OP WAR. 

Immediately after their arrival, your Committee com- 
municated with our United States Senators and Repre- 
sentatives in Congress, and were promised their assist- 
ance. 

On that day (Thursday) they obtained an interview 
with the Secretary of War, to whom they explained the 
object of their visit, and expressed their desire to re- 
ceive such information as might enable them, on their re- 
turn, to assure their constituents of the County of New 
York that the County had been fiiirl}" dealt with in the 
increase of the quota demanded under the President's 
call of December 19 for three hundred thousand (300,000) 
men, inasmuch as the impression now prevailed that 
there must be some great mistake in the increase of 
our quota from four thousand four hundred and thirty- 
three (4,433) in December, to twenty-one thousand and 
nineteen (21,019) in January. 

Mr. Stanton remarked to your Committee, in discussing 
the quota, that if the assignment in December had been 
too small, the number ought to have been increased, and 
as good citizens we ought not to complain ; but assured 
us that if, on the other hand, it was too large, the Gov- 
ernment was ready to reduce it whenever it could be 
shown. 



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Finally, it was agreed that your Committee should have 
an interview with Provost-Marshal General Fry, at nine 
o'clock on the next morning (Friday, the 3d,) with the 
understanding that full explanations in relation to the 
quota of our County should then be made to us. 

FIRST INTEEVIEW WITH THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. 

On Friday morning, at nine o'clock, as appointed, your 
Committee waited upon Provost-Marshal General Fry. 

General Fry then read to your Committee portions of 
a letter, which he said he had prepared in explanation 
of the increase in the quota of the County of New York, 
and which he said he intended to make public. 

What was read dealt only in general terms with the 
points at issue, and was not discussed by your Commit- 
tee, except in the endeavor to obtain a clear understand- 
ing of the matter. 

There were only two points which elicited any contro- 
versy. The first was in respect to our enrollment Gen- 
eral Fry stated that when the quota of December was 
assigned, it was based on a reduction of twenty per cent. 
in the enrollment, upon the supposition that the correc- 
tions would have been completed before the 15th of Feb- 
ruary, and would have justified that reduction. But 
when the quota of January was assigned, no reduction 



for excessive enrollment was made, because of advice that 
the correction of the enrollment would not be completed 
by the 15th of February. 

On this point your Committee took occasion to explain 
the difficulties of correcting the enrollment of New York 
County, and the causes for the delay in the completion 
of that work. But in order to give some idea of the 
possible result of the correction of the enrollment now in 
progress, your Committee exhibited a statement of the 
work as respects the first four' wards of the city, which 
statement is hereto appended, marked A. 

The second point of ihe statement read by the Pro- 
vost-Marshal General, which particularly attracted your 
Committee's attention, was the entire absence of any fig- 
ures which could be used to verify the correctness of the 
quota assigned, and especially the following sentence : 

" As it is not possible to compute the quotas without 
full information from all the States and Districts, it is 
plain that the figuring of persons who have no other in- 
formation than what pertains to thei: respective locaKties 
can lead to no correct results." 

Your Committee appreciated the force of this sagges- 
tion, and, therefore, in order that they might be enabled 
to arrive at correct results, they requested permission to 
examine, through a Sub-Committee, the figures used by 
ilic Bureau as the basis on which to assign the quotas of 



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the County of New York. In no other way, your Com- 
mittee felt assured, would they be able to demonstrate 
that the County of New York had been fairly dealt with. 

This was acceded to, and the Sub-Committee at once 
proceeded with the work. They subsequently made to 
us a report which is appended, marked B. 

An examination of this report will show that our Sub- 
Committee had been compelled to take for granted the 
basis of the figures on the whole enrollment of the loyal 
States, and the excess of credits due the whole United 
States. As the correctness of the result of their compu- 
tations depended upon the correctness of these very fig- 
ures, we deemed it essential that we should have the 
means of verifying them. For, if we took for granted 
any portion of the figures given us, as a basis of calcula- 
tion, we might as well have taken for granted the quota 
itself. And, even if the basis on which the computation 
of the January quota was made should prove to be cor- 
rect, it would afford no explanation of the causes which 
contributed to produce the difference between the quota 
of December, of four thousand four hundred and thirty- 
three (4,433), and the quota of January, of twenty-one 
thousand and nineteen (21,019). 

It was ascertained from the Sub-Committee, that they 
had asked for the figures relating to the December quota, 
but that they had not been furnished. 



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As these points were essential to a thorough under- 
standing of the matter under investigation, the report 
waa unsatisfactory, so far as these items of information 
were wanting. 

Your Committee then requested of the Provost-Mar- 
shal General that we be allowed an extension of the time 
fixed for the draft in the County of New York, and that 
our quota should be reduced in accordance with the sum 
of our enrollment, when the work of correction, now in 
progress, should be completed. 

The following letter was, therefore, dispatched to Pro- 
vost-Marshal General Fry : 

The Commiltee to the Provost-Marshal General. 

WiLLABD's Hotel, J 

Washington, B. C, February 3, 1865. | 

BniGADIEE-GENEBAL J. B. FRT, 

Provost-Marshal General : 
Sir: 

The Committee of the Board of Supervisors of the Connty of New York, 
appointed to visit Washington in relation to the deficiency claimed of 
the County, under the call of December 19th, for three hundred thousand 
men, have to thank you for the facilities afforded them to arrive at the 
method by which the quota of the County has been computed. 

"We desire, now, to call your attention to two facts — 

First. The time allowed in which to raise the large number of men so 
unexpectedly demanded of us is entirely too short for their voluntary en- 
listment. We ask that it be extended sufficiently to give us a fair oppor- 
tunity to raise the men without a draft. 

Second. That the enrollment upon which the quota of the County of New 
York is assigned is much larger than it sliould be. 



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Eridence of tbe excessive enroUment of the County is now in a forward 
state of preparation, and when it shall be completed (which will be in about 
twenty days) we ask that the quota of the County shall be re-assigned on 
the basis of the enrollment as corrected. 

We beUeve that we have the stronger claim to this, inasmuch as our in- 
creased quota is due in good part to the re-assignment of quotas on en- 
rollments corrected in other districts. 

Even though the necessities of the country imperatively forbid the post- 
ponement of the draft, we hope that if we give the Provost-Marshals full 
employment in mustering in Volunteers, you will find it consistent with the 
interests of the Government not to withdraw them from that duty for the 
purpose of enforcing the conscription. 
Awaiting an early reply. 

We remain, Sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servants, 

TORN FOX ) Committee of the 

SMITH ELY, Je., }■ Board of .^xcpcrvisors 

ANDEEAS WILLMANN,! oftheCouiity oj^ew York. 

On the same evening a reply was received from Pro- 
vost-Marshal General Fry, as follows :■ 

Tlic Provostr-Marshal General to the Committee. 

War Department, 
Provost-Marshal General's BrREAU, 
Washington, D^C, Feb. 3, 1865. 

Messrs. Orison Blunt, William M. Tweed, John Fox, Smith Ely, Jr., 
Andreas Willman, 

Committee of the Board of Supervisors 

of the County of New York, 

Willard's Hotel, Washington, I) . C: 

GENTLEiTEN : . « * 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of 
this date thanking me for the facilities afforded you, for arriving utthe 
method by which the quota of the County of New York, under the call of 
December 19th, 1864, was computed. 



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Being satisfied, as 1 understand you to be, of the correctness of tlie 
method of computing tlie quota and its application to the County of New 
York, you make the requests. 

First. That the time be extended sufficiently to give you a fair oppor- 
tunity to raise the men without a draft, or "even though the necessities of 
the country imperatively forbid the postponement of the draft," you hope 
that if you "give the Provost-Marshals full employment in mustering in 
volunteers,"' that I will find it " consistent with the interests of the Govern- 
ment not to withdraw them from that duty for the purpose of enforcing 
the conscription." 

In reply, upon this point, I would respectfully state that the time for 
draft has been fixed by the President in his proclamation, and I have no 
authority to give -any assurances ^as to its extension, but if you "give the 
Provost-Marshals full employment in mustering in volunteers," I shall not 
recommend that they be withdrawn from "that duty for the purpose of 
enforcing the conscription." 

Second. That as evidence of the excessive " enrollment of the County is 
now in a forward state of preparation, and when it shall be completed 
(which will be in about twenty days)" you ask "tliat the quota of the 
County shall be re-assigned on the basis of the enrollment as corrected." 

I cannot recommend that the raising of troops be deferred for the pui'- 
pose of correcting alleged errors in the enrollment lists, but when these 
lists shall have been reduced by the correction of errors a claim will be 
entertained for a corresponding reduction in the quotas assigned. 

I have the honor to be, gentlemen, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 
Provost-Marshal General. 

On the next morning (the 4th) the following additional 
letter was received from tho Provost-Marshal General : 



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The Provost-Marshal General to the Committee. 

War Department, 1 

• Provost-Marshal General's Bureau, > 

Washington, I). C, Feb. 4, 1865. ) 

President of the Board of Supervisors for the County of New York, 

Washington, D. C. 
Sir— 

The Committee appointed by your Board, consisting of Colonel Stone- 
house and others, to ascertain the principles upon which the quotas of 
New York City are assigned, and the amount of credit which the City had 
received, and the occasion of the increase of the quotas assigned in 
January, ultimo, over those assigned in December, having made an exam- 
ination as to the principle on which the quotas of January 24 were assigned, 
and ascertained the amount of credit given, and calculated the quota of 
the city for themselves, and having expressed themselves satisfied that 
justice had been done to the City, except that the enrollment on which the 
quota is based is deemed by them to be excessive, and having submitted 
to me a rough draft of a report which they proposed to submit to you as 
the result of their examination, I have the honor to request that you will 
inform we whether : 

First. The principles upon which the quota of the City of New York is 
assigned have been made known to the Board of Supervisors, and if so, 
whether the same is to them satisfactory. 

Second. Whether these principles have been fairly applied to the City of 
New York, and whether her full share of credit has been allowed to her 
by the January assignment. 

Third. And whether the Board is advised of any method other than the 
one adopted, which would carry out the law governing the subject, and 
more equitably apportion the credits and quotas to the City of New York 
and the country. 

I would respectfully request that you will, on the part of the Board of 
Supervisors, furnish a reply to this communication before leaving the city, 
and that yon will inclose a copy of the report made to the Board by the 
Committee which made the examination in this office. 



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I would also state, that if the Board desires any further information on 
any subject connected with the draft, or the business of recruiting, I shall 
be pleased to impart such information as I may be able to communicate, 

I am, Sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal Ckneral. 

The information asked by the Provost-Marshal General 
in this letter could not bo given, for the reasons pre- 
viously stated by us, in relation to the report of our 
Sub-Committee. It was therefore determined to request 
of Iiira the figures necessary to complete our compu- 
tation. 



SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. 

Our Sub-Committee visited the Provost-Marshal Gen- 
eral's office and stated our wants. They were promised 
the information in a few moments. But after waiting 
five hours, they were informed that the application for 
what was desired, must be made in writing. 

The following letter was therefore at once prepared 
and handed to the Provost-Marshal General : 



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The Committee to the Provost-Marshal General. 



Brigadiee-Genebal J. B. Fry, 

Provost-Marshal General : 
Sir— 
Please fiu-nisli the figures wMcli fill the following table : 

Total enrollment to the United States, on which was apportioned 

the quota assigned December 23, 1864 

Surplus years of service due to whole United States 



NEWTORK CONGBESSIOKAL DISTRICT. 



Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth .... 
Seventh ... 

Eighth 

Ninth 

Total 






O OJ OJ 



>,a 



5 « 

O" 



If the manner in which the quotas assigned December 23 were compu- 
ted is different from this, please fiu-nish the "figures to us in the manner in 
which these quotas were arrived at by you. 



ORISON BLUNT, 
WM. M. TWEED, 
JOHN FOX, 

ANDREAS WILLMANN, 
SMITH ELY, Jr., 



Committee 

of the 

Board of Supervisors 

ofthe 
County of New York. 



"WASnrs-GTON, February 4, 1865. 



The following answer to the foregoing was received on 
Sunday morning, dated on that day, and declining to fur- 
nish the information desired : 



] 



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The Provosfy-Marshal General to the Committee. 

War Department, 
Provost-Marshal General's Bttreait 
Washington, B. 6'., Feb. 5, 1865 

Orison Blunt, Esq., 

Chairman of the Committee^ Board of Supervisors 

of the County of New York : 

SlR- 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a communication of your- 
self and others of the Board of Supervisors, of yesterday evening, request- 
ing me to furnish you with a tabular statement of the basis and amounts of 
credits, the enrollments, &c., Ac, upon which the assignment of quotas to 
the several districts embraced in the City of New York, dated December 
24, was predicated. 

You request me to furnish you with the amount of the "total enrollment 
of the United. States, on which was apportioned the quota assigned Decem- 
ber 23, 1864. 

" The siu-plus years of service due by the whole United States. 

" The enrollment of each of the Congressional Districts embraced in the 
City of New York. 

" The aggregate years of service furnished to these several districts. 

"Their quotas under the call, July 18, for five hundred thousand 
(500,000). 

" The excess of years of service furnished by the districts respectively. 

"Their several quotas under the call of December 19," and their defi- 
ciency or surplus. 

As this information pertains exclusively to the quotas that have been 
abandoned, in consequence of their revision, as explained to the Board 
of Supervisors, and as it does in no way aflect the quota of January 24, 
with which we at present have to deal, I do not see that it would be of any 
practical utility to go into that subject, as the December assignment, 
whether correct or incorrect, has been replaced by that of January. 



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I have, within the last two clays, extended to you the opportunitj- to 
examine the records of this office, and communicated to you the principles 
upon which the present quotas were assigned, and the amount of credit 
which has been allowed, and I have understood from the Committee, 
which the Board of Supervisors had designated to make the examination, 
that they were convinced that the quotas of January 24 are correct and 
just, except that they deem the enrollment to be excessive. 

To go over the subject of the December assignment, would necessitate a 
further suspension of the ciurent business of one of the most important 
branches of my office, now requiring constant attention, and would result 
in inconvenience and hardship to parties from other States, who await the 
completion of my business with yoiu- Committee, to get information 
required by their respective localities. Having laid the subject before the 
President and Secretary of War, and received their instructions to this 
effect, I beg that you will excuse me from giving further time to an inves- 
tigation into the December assignment. 

I beg leave, however, to assure you, as stated in my letter of yesterday, 
that it will give me great pleasure to impart any information at my dispo- 
sal, touching the draft or the business of recruiting. 
I am, Sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 

The Committee at once dispatclied the following 
reply : 

The Committee to the Trovost-Marskal Gen£ral. 

Washington, D. C, February 5, 1865. 
Brig.-Gcn. J. B. Frt, Provost-Marshal General : 

Sir— 

We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication 
of yesterday, requesting repUes to the following questions. 



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^' First. Whether the principles upon which the quota of the City of New 
York is assigned have been made linown to the Board of Supervisors, and 
if so, whether the same is to them satisfactory. 

Second. Whether these principles have been fairly applied to the City of 
New York, and whether her full share of credit has been allowed to her by 
the January assignment. 

Third. And whether the Board is advised of any method other than the 
one adopted, which would carry out the law governing the subject, and 
more equitably apportion the credits and quotas to the City of New York 
and the country." 

We have to reply to tlie first clause of the first interrogatory, that the 
principles upon which tlie quota of the City of New York is assigned, have 
been made known to the Committee of the Board of Supervisors by the 
report made to the Sub-Committee appointed by them, to which you refer, 
which report is appended hereto, marked A. 

To the second clause of the first interrogatory, "whether the same is to 
them satisfactory," we have to say that the data furnished us by the 
annexed report we deemed insufiicient. 

We thought it necessary, in oi'der to show the occasion of the increase 
of the quotas assigned in January, ultimo, over those assigned in Decem- 
ber, that the figures by which the quotas of December were arrived at 
should be furnished us in the same manner as the figures for the quotas of 
January had been. 

We therefore applied for those figrrres, and we have the honor to 
acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this morning, stating 
that you had laid the subject before the President and the Secretary of 
War, and received their instructions, and asking that we will excuse you 
from giving further time to an investigation into the December assign- 
ment. 

We regret this conclusion from the conviction that only through the 
publication of the process by which the quotas of our County, for Decem- 
ber as well as January, were arrived at, could our constituents be satisfied 
that the increased quotas under the last assignment ^were just. 



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we regret, also, the delay occasioned by onr misapprehensimi of the 
opport Jity extended to us to examine the records of your office. We now 
learn for the first time that such opportunity is extended, and shall gladly 
avail ourselves thereof. 

We desire now to be aUowed to copy from the records the enrollment of 
the remaining Congressional Districts of the Loyal States, the terms of 
service, the quotas of July 18, 1864, the excess or deficiencies, if any, and 
the quotas assigned January 24, 1865. 

When we shall be in possession of these figures, we shall be able and 
pleased to answer the remainder of your iuterrogatories. 

The bearer of this will await your reply, and our Sub-Committee will 
immediately thereupon proceed to the examination. 
We have the honor to be, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servants, 
ORISON BLUNT, ") Committee 

S'fK'- ''''^^' Uoara ol^rvisors 
SmiIs WlfeilANN, ) County of few York. 

Appended was the report of our Sub-Committee, whicli 
forms Appendix B of this report. 

This request was also refused by the Provost-Marshal 
General, in the following letter : 

TTie Provost-Marshal General to the Committee. 

War Department, ) 

Pbovost-Marshal General's B^Rf^^i t 

Washington, D. C, Feb. 5, 1865. ) 

Oeison Betiejt, Esq., 

Cliairman of the Committee, Board of Supervisors 

of the County of New York : 

Sib— 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receii^t of your communication of 
this date, from which I quote as follows : 



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"We regret also the delay occasioned by our misapprehensiou of the op- 
portunity extended to iis to examine the records of your office. We now 
learn for the first time that such opportunity is extended, and shall gladly 
avail ourselves thereof. 

" We desire now to be allowed to copy from the records the enrollment 
of remaining Congressional Districts of the loyal States, the term of serv- 
ice, the quotas of July, 1864, the excess or deficiencies if any, and the quo- 
tas assigned January 24, 1865." 

In reply to the two paragraphs quoted from your letter, I would respect- 
fully state as follows : to the first, 

By reference to my letter of this morning, I find the following : 

" I have within the last two days extended to you the opportunity to ex- 
amine the records of this office," &c. 

I regret to infer from your communication, just receivod, that the Com- 
mittee has understood this remark as having a more extended meaning 
than was intended. It was not supposed that the Committee would under- 
stand mo as saying that they had been offered an opportunity to examine 
all the records of the different branches, or all of any one branch of this 
office, or that they were now invited to do so. An opportunity has been 
afforded to examine only the records necessarj- to a proper understanding 
of the snbject under consideration, to wit : the quota of New York County, 
as assigned January 24th, 1865. I respectfully request that the Committee 
will so understand my letter of this morning. 

To the second : I have already made the Committee as fully acquainted 
with the method of computing the quotas assigned on the 24th of January, 
as it is in my power to do. The figures, statements, &c., asked for abovci 
will give the Committee no additional raeiuis of forming a correct opinion 
as to the method of computing the quotas referred to. 

The request made in the second paragraph, quoted from your letter of 
this date, has been laid before the Secretary of War, and endorsed by him 
as follows : 

"The demand of the Committee appears to me unreasonable and im- 
practicable, but the Provost-Marshal General will put on it such force as he 
can, and in the meantime go on with the di-aft. Filling the army cannot bo 



9 



delayed by calls on the office of the Provost-Marshal that will require 
months to fill, and which can serve no other purpose than delay." 

It is at this time more impracticable to grant the request made by the 
Committee, and referred to above, than it would have been to grant that 
made in their letter of yesterday, and which was indorsed by the President, 
as follows : 

"This is too large a job for the officers to be encumbered with now, in 
the midst of preparations for the approaching draft." 

I am unable to inform you definitely at what time the informatioii will be 

prepared. 

I am, Sir, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

JAIIES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 

Determined to use our best exertions to obtain these 
figuresj your Committee dispatched the following letter 
to the Provost-Marshal General, which closed the corres- 
pondence of the 5th : 

The Committee to the Provost-Marshal General. 

Washington, Feb. 5, 1865, 11 p. m. 
Brigadter-Genetul J. B. Fry, 

Provost-Marshal General : 
Sir : 

We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your second communi- 
cation of this date. 

We regret to find that our request seems to have been entirelyTnisunder- 
stood both by the Secretary of War and yourself. 

So far from being a " call on the office of the Provost-Marshal that will 
require months to fill, and which can serve no other pui'pose than delay." 
it will require no labor or attention on the part of yorn- clerks, except an 
exhibit of the records, and we will engage (the nimiber of figures to bo 



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copied being less tlian 4,000) to have the copy made in two honi's by two 
persons. 

From the tenor of your communication, we are led to infer that you are 
under the impression that an opportunity has been afforded us to examine 
some of the records of youi* office. Although we have been detained for 
many hours in your office in momentary expectation of receiving the fig- 
ures for which we had asked, the only opportunity we have had of exam- 
ining records has been limited to a single page (the Southern District of 
New York), and that for but a few moments. 

We acknowledge that you have already made the Committee as fully ac- 
quainted with the method of computing the quotas assigned on the 24th of 
January as it is in your power to do. It is hardly necessary, however, for 
us to suggest that in acquainting us with this method, you assumed as basis 
of the computation two numbers, upon the correctness of which the justice 
of the results entirely depends. The first of those numbers is the sum of 
the enrollment of all the districts of the loyal States, and the second is the 
sum of the excess of credits in those districts on December 31st, 1864, after- 
satisfying all calls previous to December, 1864. We have no means of 
testing the correctness of these numbers, and can have none except from 
the figures which we have asked permission to copy. Unless the means of 
verifjring their correctness be in our possession it will be impossible for us 
either to reply to the interrogatories proposed in your communication of 
yesterday, or to demonstrate to ourconstituentsthe justice of the increased 
quotas now demanded. 

If the means of satisfying our constituents be afforded us, we laiow that 
they will heartily respond to any just call which has been or may be made 
upon them, and we are entirely confident that recruits will then be ob- 
tained so rapidly by voluntary enlistment, that the enforcement of the 
draft will be imnecessary. 

Trusting that this explanation of oiu- request may be satisfactory to the 

Department, and hoping immediately to receive the permission to copy the 

figures desired, we remain 

Your obedient servants, 

ORISON BLUM". ") Committee 

WILLIAM ai. TWEED, ofthe 

JOHN FOX, • Board of Supervisors 

SMITH ELY, Jr., 'ofthe 

ANDREAS \VILLMANN, J County ofJSJew York. 



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INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT. 

Your Committee had, since their arrival in- Washing- 
ton, endeavored to see the President, but it was not until 
the morning of Monday, the 6th, when our correspond- 
ence with Provost-Marshal General Fry had reached this 
point, that we were enabled to have an audience with 
His Excellency. 

In order that there might be no misunderstanding as 
to what we desired, the following points of our claim 
were submitted to him in writing : 

Washington, D. C, February 6, 1865. 
To ffis ExcelleTicy the President of the United States. 

Under your call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men, there was assigned 
to the County of New York, on the 23d of December, a quota of 4,433 men. 

On the 24th of January, 1865, our quota was increased to 21,019 men. 

We ask: 

First. Inasmuch as the increase in our quota is due in great part to a 
re-assignment of quotas after the correction of the enrollment in other 
districts, we think it but fair that our quota should be re-assigned after the 
correction of our enrollment. We ask, therefore, that upon the comple- 
tion of the correction of our enrollment, which will be in about twenty 
days, our quota be re-assigned. 

Second. In case our County shall keep her Pi-ovost-Marshals reasonably 
busy mustering in recruits, that the Provost-Marshals be not withdrawn 
from that duty to enforce the draft. 

Third. To satisfy our constituents as to the justice of this increase of our 
quota we ask leave to copy the figures on which the quotas of December 
and January are based. As the quota of each district depends on the 
figures for every other district, we shall be obliged to copy the figures of 
aU the districts of the loyal States. This we will do at any hour of day or 



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night Tvhich may be least inconvenient to the War Department, and we 
will do it in less than two hours. 

Although your Committee received no positive assur- 
ance from the President to the two first points presented 
to him, they were led to believe that His Excellency saw 
their force and justice. 

In regard to the third point, however, in which our 
correspondence with the Provost-Marshal General had 
been so unsatisfactory, he remarked it had been repre- 
sented to him that we desired these figures for the pur- 
pose of showing that the Government was wrong. 
Your Committee assured him, however, that their only 
object was to be put in possession of the data on which 
they might satisfy themselves and their constituents that 
the quota assigned them was jast. 

On this explanation. His Excellency was kind enough 
to hand to your Committee the following order to 
Provost-Marshal General Fry. 

The President to tlie Provost-Marshal General. 

Executive Mansion, ) 

Wasuington, February 6, 1865. j 

Provost-Marshal General: 

These gentlemen distinctly say to me, this morning, that what they want 

is the means from your office of showing their people that the quota 

assigned to them is right. They think it will take but little time, two 

hours, they say. Please give them double the time, and every facility you 

can. 

Yours truly, 

A. LINCOLN. 



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THIRD INTERVIEW WITH THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. 

With this memorandum, and a copy of that portion of 
the paper handed the President relating to this subject, 
our Sub- Committee called upon Provost-Marshal General 
Fry, ready to proceed with the labor of copying the 
figures. 

The Provost-Marshal General took the papers and 
shortly after handed the Sub-Committee the following : 



The Provost-MarsTial General to the Committee. 



War Department, 
Provost-Marshal General's Bureau 
Washington^ D. C, February 6th 



EAU, V 
, 1865. ) 



To the Board of Supervisors of the County of New York: 

Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a meraorandum from the 
President, by the hands of your Sub-Committee, in reference to furnishing 
the information asked by you yesterday, and which was declined by my 
letter to you of last evening. Since the receipt of the memorandum from 
the President, I have called upon and conferred with him upon the subject, 
and am now directed by him to inform you that in answer to your applica- 
tion for figures, statements, &c., I have only to repeat my letter of last 
evening, to which I refer you. 

I am, gentlemen. 

Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 
Provost-Marshal General. 



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Thus your Committee were at last informed distinctly 
that, even with the President's permission, they could 
not have the figures necessary to demonstrate the accu- 
racy either of the quota of 4,433, demanded in Decern' 
ber, or the quota of 21,019, required in January. 

Had this refusal been given us at the outset, much 
valuable time would have been saved us, and we should 
the sooner have been able to lay our report before your 
Honorable Body. 

As your Committee was appointed in part for the pur- 
pose of ascertaining the justice of the increased quota, 
or, at least, the reasons which operated to increase the 
demand for 4,433 men in December to a demand for 
21,019 men in January, they felt that they would have 
been remiss had they less pertinaciously insisted upon 
obtaining the desired information. 

During the evening of the 6th your Committee were 
surprised at the receipt of a letter from the Provost 
Marshal General, again refusing to furnish the informa 
tion asked. It was as follows : 



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The Provost-Marshal General to tlie Committee. 

War Department, ) 

Provost-Marshal General's Bureau, > 
Washington, D. a, Feb. 6, 1865. ) 
Orison Blunt, Esq. 

Chairman of the Committee, Board of Supervisors 

of the County of New York: 
Sir: 

Your communication of this date lias been received, asking for an 
opportunity to examine tlie records of this office, and obtain such infor- 
mation as Nvill enable you to test the accuracy of the "sum of the enroll- 
ment of all the districts of the loyal States, and the sum of the excess of 
credits of those districts on December 31, 1864, after satisfying all calls 
previous to December 19, 1864." 

In your communication you allege that these two numbers are assumed, 
and then add that the correctness of the quota of New York depends upon 
the correctness of these assumed numbers. 

In reply, I have the honor to state that "the sum of the enrollment of 
all the districts of the Loyal States" to which quotas have been assigned, 
and which was furnished you on the 4d instant, and which is correctly 
stated in the repoi't of your Sub-Committee, and the "sum of the excess 
of credits of these districts," which were also furnished you are not 
assumed, but are the correct aggregate of the enrollment and excess of 
years of service. 

I beg leave to inform the Board of Supervisors that, having furnished 
them with this information, I have no further time at my disposal to devote 
to this subject. 

I am. Sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 
Provost-Marshal General. 

Your Committee have received no further communi- 
cation up to the time of making their report. 



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THE TWO QUOTAS. 

In addition to the foregoing correspondence, your 
Committee have spent much time and labor in the 
endeavor to ascertain whether, of the two quotas 
assigned to this County in December and in January 
either or neither is just. 

For the quota of January the method of computation 
was in part presented to your Committee, and in order 
that the difference between the processes employed in 
the computation of the two quotas, may be clearly 
apparent, we give in detail the process of computation 
of the January quota, and an approximation to the pro- 
cess of computation of the December quota. 

QUOTA OF JANUARY. 

The following is a statement of the process employed 
in the assignment of the January quota. To save space, 
we have treated the County of New York as a single 
district, though actually a separate computation is made 
for each Congressional District : 

As the enrollment of the whole United States, two millions two 
hundred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and twenty- 
two 2,2 19,922 

Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one hundred 

and forty-eight thousand one hundred and lifty-fom- 118,154 



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So is the President's call for three hundred thousand. 300,000 

men, less ten thousand 10,000 

men raised between the date of the call, December 
19, 18Gi, and the time up to which excess credits 
are allowed in the computation of the quota, Decem- 
ber 31, 1864, which makes the number of men re- 
quired on that day, two hundred and ninety thou- 
sand 290,000 

these men being considered as three years men in 
the computation, the number of years of service 
represented by them is eight hundred and seventy 

thousand 870,000 

To which add the credits due December 31, 1864, 
to all the districts of the United States for years of 
service of recruits furnished to the Government in 
excess of aU previous calls, four hundred and 
eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty- 
two 488,322 

■ making a sum of one million three hundred and 
fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two 1,358,322 

To the quota of years of service demanded of the Coimty of New 

York, ninety thousand six hundred and fiftj'-two 90,652 

From this sum, ninety thousand six hundred and fifty-two, 90,652 
which is the quota of years of service demanded of 
the County of New York, subtract the credits for 
excess of years of service allowed the County, 
twenty-seven thousand sLx; hundred and forty-four. 27,644 
and the remainder, sixty-three thousand and eight 63,008 
is the number of years of service assigned to the Coimty of 
New York ; divide this by three and the quotient is the quota 
of men assigned to the County of Now York, twenty-one 
thousand and two 21,002 

Or in more techical form, 



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Enrollment of the United States. 



-^ y Enrollment of the County of New York. 

CO > 

•g I President's Call, December 19, 1864- 

C [ Men raised between December 19, 1864, and December 31, 1864. 



Men to be raised to make up 600,000. 
X 



Aggregate of years of service of men to be raised distributed. 



■^ V Excess years of service due the whole United States. 

to \ 
lo ' 



i» > Aggregate of years of service distributed of men raised and to be raised. 

CO V 
to 1 
to/ 

§1 Aggregate of years of service apportioned to New York County, of men 
g ( raised and to be raised. 

toj 

I 

to) 

■^ I Deduct excess credits due the County of New York. 

u 

w ) Years of service of men to be raised apportioned to the Covmty of New 
g > York. 

00 } 



Quota of men actually assigned to the County of New York. 



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QUOTA OF DECEMBER. 



The Department having declined to give any data for 
the quota assigned December 23d, 1864, your Committee 
were obliged to make up an approximate statement of 
the process by which it was arrived at. This has been 
done from the figures in possession of the Special Com- 
mittee on Volunteering, the general allegations of Pro- 
vost-Marshal General Fry made to your Committee, the 
circulars issued by him to the Assistant Provost-Marshal 
Generals for their guidance in assigning the quotas of 
districts to sub-districts, his pubhshed communications in 
answer to applications for information from various parts 
of the country, and such other hints and indications as 
your Committee were enabled to obtain. 

Your Committee believe that the figures which they 
present below do not vary much from those which the 
War Department declined to furnish : 

As the (approximate) enrollment of the whole United States, 
two millions two hundred and ninety-nine thousand three 
hundred and forty-six 2,299,346 

Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one 
hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and 

fifty-four 14o,154 

less Twenty (20) per cent., twenty-nine thousand 

six hundred and thirty-one 29,631 

the remainder being one hundred and eighteen 

thousand five hundred and twenty-three 118,523 



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So is the President's call for three hundred thousand. . . 300,000 
men, to which add the (approximate) credits due Oc- 
tober 31, 1864, to all the districts of the United States 
for years of service of recruits furnished to the 
Government in excess of all previous calls, four 
hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and 

eighty-eight 456,988 

the same being seven hundred and fifty-six thousand nine 
hundred and eighty-eight 756,988 

To the quota of years of service demanded of the County of New 

York, thirty-nine thousand and twenty 39,020 

From this sum, thirty-nine thousand and twenty . . 39,020 
which is the quota of years of service demanded 
of the County of New York, subtract the (approxi- 
mate) excess of years of service allowed the 
County, thirty-five thousand three hundred and 

twenty-seven 35,327 

and the remainder due is the quota of the County of New 
York, computing its six districts as one, three thousand six 
hundred and ninety-three 3,693 

Or, in more technical form, 



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jo ?■ Approximate enrollment of tlie United States. 

CO \ 
OS"' 

•B r EnroUment of the County of New York. 
£) 
I 

-ffi y Twenty per cent, of the enroUment of the County of New York. 
si 
II 

-^{.EnroUment of the County of New York less twenty per cent. 

(a) 

The President's call, December 19, 1864. 

-^[Excess of years of service due the whole United States for men raised. 

II 

-I I A"^regate years of service distributed of men raised and to be raised. 

si '" t 

jS) Years of service of men raised and to be raised apportioned to the 

g (■ County of New York. 

^] Years of service of men raised due to the County of New York, Octo- 
^ { ber 31, X864. 

" I Quota if excess in Eighth and Ninth Districts could be applied to defl- 
§ \ ciency in other Districts. 

-4- 

;? [ Approximate excess In Eighth and Ninth Districts. 
V [ Quota assigned to the other four districts. 

to ' 

In reality, the computation being made for each Con- 
gressional District separately, there is an excess of cred- 
its in the Eighth and Ninth Districts, and a deficiency ia 



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the other four districts greater than this excess by three 
thousand six hundred and ninety-three (3,693). 

The Congressional Districts then stand as follows : 



CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. 


DEFICIENXY. 


EXCESS. 


Fourth 


1,228 

901 

1,345 

899 




Fifth 




Sixth 




Seventh 




Eighth 


621 


Niath 


» 


119 








Totals 


4,433 


740 







Or, net quota, were the excess in the Eighth and Ninth 
Districts applicable to the other districts, three thousand 

six hundred and ninety -three (3,693). 

t 
The enrollment of the whole United States was stated 
to your Committee by Provost-Marshal General Fry to 
have been considerably reduced between the first and 
second assignments. We have made an allowance for 
such reduction of nearly eighty thousand (80,000). 

From the enrollment of the County of New York, the 
Provost-Marshal General stated to us that in the compu- 
tation of December he deducted twenty (20) per cent. 
We have, therefore, deducted twenty (20) per cent, from 
the enrollment as given us by him. 

Your Committee were informed that between the two 
computations a large num.ber of claims for credits were 



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received from various parts of the country. For this we 
have made an allowance of nearly thirty-eight thousand 
(38,000). 

The results obtained with these data, show an (approx- 
imate) excess of years of service still remaining in tlie 
Eighth and Ninth Congressional Districts of seven hun- 
dred and forty (740), applicable to future calls. 

It will be seen that the process employed in the com- 
putation of the quotas in December, was entirely 
different from that employed in January, as fully appears 
from the comparison of the circulars to the Assistant 
Provost-Marshal Generals, hereto annexed and marked 
C. The causes of this change appears from an address 
of the Governor of this State to the people, and a Mes- 
sage transmitted by him to the Assembly hereto 
annexed and marked D. 

In December, a one year's man enlisted in 1864, was 
counted as an offset to a one year's man enlisted in 1865. 
In January, three (3) one (1) year's men enlisted in 1864, 
were required to offset one man enlisted for one year in 
1865. The credits due to localities for surplus men and 
surplus years of service were allowed at their full value 
in December, and at one-third of their value in January. 
The simplest method of effecting this reduction in value, 
would have been to divide the surplus years of service 
furnished by three ; but another method was adopted 



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which accomplished the same result, though in a less 
conspicuous manner. The justice of the system of 
credits for surplus years of service adopted by Provost- 
Marshal General Fry, in the computation of the Decem- 
ber quota, is supported at length by him in a communi- 
cation to the Governor of Minnesota, dated January 12, 
1865, hereto appended and marked E. We desire to 
present no stronger condemnation of the system adopted 
in January than this argument, for the system of Decem- 
ber, made by the Provost-Marshal General himself. 

It will also be noticed that in the computation of 
January, large credits were taken away from us which 
had been allowed in the computation of December. 
That we were entitled to these credits, would seem to be 
shown by the December decision of the War Department, 
but additional grounds will be given hereafter in this 
Report. Most of these credits were for men enlisted in 
the Navy. Six thousand four hundred and forty-eight 
(6,448) years of service due to the County of New York 
on such enlistments, and allowed in the December com- 
putation, were taken from this County in the January 
computation, as your Committee believe, without shadow 
of evidence and without color of law. Your Committee 
have to report that, to the best of their belief, these 
credits are still due to the County of New York, and as 
such should be allowed. 

Your Committee deem the ground taken in both 



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computations, viz., that the call of the President is to 
produce a net result of 300,000 men, undiminished by 
any allowance for credits, is a pure assumption, and has 
no foundation either in the call of the President or in 
the Acts of Congress regulating conscription. Had the 
system of crediting adopted on previous calls been 
pursued in the assignment of the quotas under this call, 
not only could no quota have been assigned to the 
County of New York, but she w^ould have had still 
remaining a considerable surplus of credits applicable to 
future callb\ 

The character of the method last adopted in the com- 
putation of quotas is well set forth in a letter from the 
Governor of Pennsylvania to the President of the United 
States, an extract from which is appended herewith, 
together with the call of the President, marked F. 

The Provost-Marshal General to the Acting Assistant 
P7'ovosf-3Iarshnl General of the Southern Division of 
Neio York. 

As already stated, in their first interview with Provost- 
Marshal General Fry, he read to your Committee por- 
tions of a paper in explanation of the increased quota of 
the County of New York, which paper, he stated, would 
be made public. 

In the second interview with Provost-Marshal General 



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Fry, a copy of tbe paper which he read was requested. 
Wo were then furnished with what purported to bo a 
copy of a letter of the Provost-Marshal General to 
Brigadier-General Hinks, Acting Assistant Provost- 
Marshal General of the Southern Division of New York, 
but on examination it proved to be only a portion of the 
letter which, however, was published in fall in the New 
York City papers of the same day. 

This letter is appended marked G. The portion 
omitted was that reflecting on the County Committee on 
Volunteering. The statements of that letter, so far as 
they relate to the action of County authorities, require 
some illustration. The Provost-Marshal General says : 

" In reference to the City of New-York, the number of men to be raised 
was fixed at the low figtire of 4,433 in the first assignment from two pecu- 
liar causes. One related to the amount of credit to which that place was 
entitled on account of credits for men enlisted in the Navy prior to Feb- 
ruary 24, 1864. It was reported to me by the Chairman of the Volunteer 
Committee of the New York Board of Supervisors, in letter dated Decem- 
ber 20, 1864, that an agreement had been made between himself and 
General Hays, the then Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, ' that 
the two and three years' naval men should be apportioned to ' the sub- 
districts of the County of New York, and reports were made to this ofiice 
In accordance therewith ; by which, of the naval credits allowed by the 
commission appointed for that purpose (and which commission considered 
only the number of men and not their periods of service), to the first ten 
districts in New York, composed of one, two and three years' men, all the 
two and three years' men were put to the credit of the City of New York, 
and such naval credits as belonged to Brooklyn and Tarrytown were reported 
asono year men, thus giving to each of the districts of New York City, and 
taking from the districts of Brooklyn and Tarrytown about two or three 



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times as much credit on ttiis account as was rigiit and just. The unfair' 
ness and injustice of this distribution escaped notice in the hun'y of prepar- 
ing the approximate quotas between the 2Qth and 2ith of December, but was 
subsequently discovered and corrected, the number of naval men assigned by 
the commission to the different districts being disturbed.^^ 

Fortunately the official correspondence of the County 
Committee on Volunteering is sufficient to answer this 
statement, and to prove that instead of the " unfairness 
and injustice of this distribution" escaping notice, the 
Provost-Marshal General was distinctly made acquainted 
with the fact that claim for cdl the two and three year 
men was made for New York. 

That General Fry knew all about this matter, when he 
assigned the quota the first time, is proven by the follow- 
ing :. ■ 

On the 19th of December, at midnight, the Chairman 
of the County Committee on Volunteering received from 
Provost-Marshal General Fry the following telegram : 

Provost-Marshal General to Orison Blunt. 

War Departxien't, 
Provost-Marshal General's Office, 
Washington, D. C, Dec. 19, 1864. 
Eon, 0. Blunt, 

Supervisor, New York City: 

Please send me, at the earliest possible moment, the terms of service for 
one (1), two (2), and three (3) years of the seamen credited to the Southern 
Division of New York, by the Naval Commission, by districts one (1) to tf^n 
(10) inclusive. 

(Signed,) JAMES B. FEY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 
7 



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In reply to this, early the next morning, the following 
telegram was dispatched : 

Orison Blunt to Provost-Marshal General Fry. 
(Copy.) 

HEAD-QUAKTERS CO0NTT COMMITTEE OX VOLUNTEERING, ) 

City Hall Park, Broadway, f 

Corner of Chambers street, i 

New York, December 20, 1864. ) 
Brigadier-General J. B. Fry, 

Provost-Marshal General: 
Sir— 

I hasten to reply to your dispatch dated the 19th instant, received 
at midnight. 

The number of men enlisted in the City of New York for the Navy, 
from April 15, 1861, to February 24, 1864, and claimed by us, was twenty- 
sis thousand four hundred and eighteen (26,418). 

Of these the State Commission allowed the County of New York, 

in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight 18,948 

There were allowed to Brooklyn, six thousand and forty-six 6,046 

The balance of one thousand four hundred and twenty-four 1,424 

were allowed to other places, but to what District we are not 
advised. 

Of the whole number of twenty-six thousand foui' hundred and eighteen 
(26,418), we have the official records to show that there were enlisted 

For three years, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-one 11,151 

For two years, five hundred and one. . .' 501 

For one year, fourteen thousand seven hundred and Bixty-sLx — 14,766 



Total, twenty-six thousand four hundred and eighteen — 26,418 

As these men were all confessedly enlisted in New York City, and under 
a strict construction of the law, we think we should have been entitled to 
all not actually proven to have resided elsewhere, and as Brooklyn especially 



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presented no such evidence, iut received her credit off of our claim, icithout 
reference to years of service, we now claim that the six thousand and forty- 
six (6,04G) men allowed to Brooklyn shall be counted one year men, and that 
all the tioo and three year men belong of right to the County of New York. 

By this calculation there were allowed to New York— 

Of three years' men, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-one 11,151 

Of two years' men, five hundred and one 501 

Of one year men, seven thousand two hundred and ninety-six... 7,296 

Total allowed to New York, eighteen thousand nine hundred and 
forty-eight 18,948 

Allowed to all other places — 

Of one year men, seven thousand four hundred and seventy — 7,470 

Total allowed 26,418 



In addition to the above there were allowed us, exclusively on your 
own order, credit for five hundred and twenty-nine (529) men enlisted 
in the United States Naval service from February 24, 1864, to April 4, 
1864. Of these men there were enlisted— 

For three years, fifty-five 55 

For two years, one hundred and twenty-one 121 

For one year, three hundred and fifty-three 353 

Total, five hundred and twenty-nine 529 

On these two accounts, therefore, there were allowed to the City of 
New York a total credit of nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy- 
seven (19,477), of whom there were enlisted — 

For three years, eleven thousand two hundred and six 11,206 

For two years, six hundred and twenty-two 622 

For one year, seven thousand six hundred and forty-nine 7,649 

Total, nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven 19,477 



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I will transmit yon by mail, to-night, an official copy of letter to General 
Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, Southern Division of New 
York, showing all credits due New York County up to October 31, 1864, 
which will show at a glance the position in which we stand as regarded 
credits on that date. 

I am, Sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

Cliairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. 

Particular attention is called to the lines which we 
now italicise in the foregoing telegram. Can it be 
possible that the Provost-Marshal General's Bureau did 
not know when the quota of December 23d was as- 
signed that New York claimed and had been alloAved 
all the two and three years' naval men, when the only 
knowledge the Bureau had as to the terms of service 
of these naval men was derived from information which 
they had called upon us for, and had been by us fur- 
nished to them? And no better proof of the justice 
of the allowance of all these credits to New York, 
could be given than the fact that the authorities of 
none of the other localities which have now received 
the benefit of them could state the terms for which 
the men claimed by them had been enlisted. 

In addition to the telegram, and in order that there 
might be no mistake, on the evening of the same day a 
copy of that telegram was transmitted to Provost-Mar- 
shal General Fry by special messenger, together with 



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other papers relating to the same matter, designed to 
give the Department the fullest information on the sub- 
ject of all credits due the County of New York. The 
other papers are appended hereto, marked H. 

In his letter to General Hinks, the Provost-Marshal 
General further says : 

" In connection with tlie complaint made by New York City it is proper to 
state ttiat under tlie call of July 18, 1864, her quota was twenty-three thou- 
sand one hundred and forty (23,140). On that call the City, by the largest 
estimate that can be made, enlisted but five thousand sis hundred and 
fortj'-two (5,642) men. She secured credit for nineteen thousand six hun- 
dred and ten (19,610) seamen, said to have been enlisted between April, 
1861, and February 24, 1864, who were not embraced in the enrollment on 
which her quota was based. For these she had to pay no bounties, and 
seems to have been at no further expense than that incurred in collecting 
and recording the names of the men, and having the sheets containing 
them bound in a ponderous volume." 

The statement that a small number of men were en- 
listed under the previous call is true. But under the 
law of Congress relating to navul credits and the order 
of the Provost-Marshal General himself, the County of 
New York was not justly required to raise one man of 
the quota of twenty three thousand one hundred and 
forty (23,140) men then demanded. Had the naval cred- 
its for men enlisted in our city all been allowed to us, ex- 
cept where evidence was furnished that at the time of 
enlistment they resided elsewhere, according to the terms 
of the law. New York Avould have been relieved of the 



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necessity of raising a single man under that call because 
of the excess of men already furnished the Navy. 

The Provost-Marshal General adds : 

" Of the five thousand four hundred and sixty-two (5,462) stated above 
as enlisted to the credit of New York City, since July last, many were 
fraudulently enlisted and counted several times over, and some of them 
are still in the City of New York, repeating their enlistments to fill the 
present quota. The conduct of the parties implicated in these frauds is 
now undergoing official scrutiny." 

This is a reflection upon the subordinate officers of the 
Provost-Marshal General's Bureau in the County of New 
York. It certainly could not have been intended to give 
the impression that the responsibility for such illegal en- 
listments, if any there be, rests with the County author- 
ities. The fact is, that the County authorities enlist no 
man. They merely pay the local bounty to those en- 
listed by the officers appointed for that purpose by the 
Provost-Marshal General. And if the recruiting officers 
fraudulently enlist men, which we do not believe, the re- 
sponsibility does not rest upon the County authorities. 

■ Statements in support of this assertion of the Provost- 
Marshal General appear in the New York papers of this 
morning, apparently emanating from the War Depart- 
ment. In these statements it is intimated that the in- 
crease of the quota of this County from four thousand 
four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) to twenty-one 
thousand and nineteen (21,019) is explained by frauds 



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practiced on the Government in filling the quota of July. 
This is not so. Of the men enlisted under the call of 
July, every one credited to the County of New York re- 
ceived his bounty in his own hand, and no paper credits 
were bought. As to the naval credits, nearly all of them 
were for men enlisted at a time when no bounties were 
paid, and there was no inducement for the commission of 
fraud. 

It is true that there has been much swindling of re- 
cruits, and, we doubt not, of the Government, in the en- 
listment of men within the limits of the County of New 
York, to be credited to other localities. The County au- 
thorities have for the past year been endeavoring to pre- 
vent this. They liave given repeated warning of the ex- 
istence of these frauds, but the Government has persisted 
in a system which affords facilities for the practices of 
which it now complains. 

The only manner in which the Government can have 
suffered in regard to recruits credited to this County has 
been by the desertion of the men after their acceptance 
by the United States officers. This cannot affect our 
quota (except so far as it may render future calls on the 
whole country necessary), as is proved by the following 
extract from the letter of the Provost-]\[arshal General 
to the Governor of Minnesota, heretofore referred to : 

"The nile has always been, under all calls, that when a soldier is ac- 
cepted into the service, he is received and credited for the term of his en- 



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listraent or draft, the Government taking the responsibility that he will 
serve for tlie full period of his enlistuufnt, and in no case has any locality 
been called upon to replace men lost to the service by death, disability, or 
desertion." 

Instead of being responsible, in any degree, for the al- 
leged fraudulent enlistments, the official papers appended 
to this report, marked J, will prove that the County au- 
thorities have been active in bringing to the knowledge 
of the Government officials cases of fraud which have 
from time to time come under their notice. 

In regard to the correction of the enrollment now in 
progress, the Provost-Marshal General says : 

• " For more than a year corrections of the enrollment in New York City 
have been continually invited. A special appeal for this correction was 
made by circular from my office, dated June 25, 1864, and repeated Novem- 
ber 15, 18G4:. Copy herewith. During this time additions to and deductions 
from the enrollment lists in New York City were continually being made 
by officers of this bureau. The appeal to the people, represented by the 
Committee, to aid in these corrections, received no attention from the Com- 
mittee until the 24th of November, showing that they consumed five months 
in making a proposition which the Department took but one day to adopt ; 
and, furthermore, the Committee and the people were at liberty, at any 
time, without special authority from this Department, to correct their en- 
roUmerits, and in many States this privilege has been fully and advantage- 
ously exercised." 

So far from the " appeals to the people, represented by 
the Committee, to aid in these corrections" having re- 
ceived no attention from June 25 to November 24, the 
fact is that up to the 24th of November it had always 
been understood that no one except persons directly in- 



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tere •-ted would be allowed to assist in correcting the en- 
rollment. The County Committee had long contempla- 
ted this very work, and had consulted the Acting Assist- 
ant Provost-Marshal General of this District upon the 
subject repeatedly, but no encouragement was ever re- 
ceived by the County authorities to do the work until 
the application made in November was accepted. 

The proposition made by your Committee, to have the 
enrollment corrected by the County authorities, was in 
consequence of a Circular from the Provost- Marshal 
General, which was handed to the County Committee on 
Volunteering, by the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal 
of the District, on the 24th of November. 

On the same day the Committee submitted a propo- 
sition to the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General 
of the District, offering to undertake the work of the en- 
rollment. 

These documents are appended to this report, marked I. 

The Volunteer Committee were notified verbally of 
the acceptance of this proposition, with slight modifica- 
tions, on the 26th of November, and they at once pro> 
ceeded with the work. 

Of the results so far achieved by your Committee in 
this work, reference is made to Appendix A, attached to 
this report. 



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RESULTS. 

The results of the visit of your Committee to "Wash- 
ington may be summed up as follows : 

First. — Twenty-five (25) per cent, of the quotas of the 
several Districts has been deferred by the President, 
through the efforts of the State authorities, leaving the 
quotas as follows : 



CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. 


JANUARY 
QUOTAS. 


REDUCTION. 


FEBRUARY 
QUOTAS. 


Fourth 


4.039 
3.'J07 
3,023 
3,070 
3,348 
2,732 


1,010 
977 
75G 
993 

837 
683 ■ 


3,029 
2,930 


Filth 


Sixth 


2,267 
2,977 
2,511 
2,049 


Seventh 


Eighth 


Ninth 






Totals 


21,019 


5,256 


15,763 







Secondly. — A probable delay of the draft, in case the 
work of recruiting is prosecuted with satisfactory results. 

Thirdly. — A probable re-assignment of the quotas, 
when the correction of the enrollment is completed, on 
the basis of the corrected enrollment. 



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CONCLUSION. 



Nothing now remains but for the County authorities 
to make every effort to secure the enlistment of men, and 
trust to the future for justice in the regulation of credits 
and quotas. In this emergency, the Committee feel that 
the Board can rely upon the zealous co-operation of their 
constituents in the endeavor to avoid the fearful hard- 
ships of a draft. 

Regretting that the County of New York should by 
any means be brought into apparent antagonism with the 
War Department, at a time when the necessities of the 
country demand the harmonious co-operation of the peo- 
ple with every branch of the Government, and fully be- 
lieving that the Administration will ultimately do us no 
injustice, your Committee have entire confidence that the 
patriotic people of New York will promptly respond to 
the call for the additional troops deemed necessary for 
the successful prosecution of the war and for the mainte- 
nance of the Union. 

Your Committee recommend the adoption of the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Resolved, That the Committee on Volunteering be and 
it is hereby authorized to offer such bounties as may be 
deemed wise and judicious, both for volunteers and sub- 



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stitutes, and instructed to report their determination to 
this Board. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Dated February 28, 1865. 

ORISON BLUNT, 
ELIJAH F. FURDY, 
SMITH ELY, Je., 
JOHN FOX, 
WILLIAM M. TWEED, 
ANDREAS WILLMANN. 

Special Committee. 
Cornelius Corson, Clerk. 



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APPENDIX A. 



STATEMENT 



OF RESULTS IN THE CORRECTION OF THE ENROLLMENT OF THE 
FIRST FOUR WARDS OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK. 



First Ward. 

Total number of names on old enrollment 3,048 

Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : 
Out of Ward ^^ 



Over age 



77 



Under age 1^ 



Alienage 



154 



No trace ^'^^^ 

Indefinite 262 

Names duplicated 23 

Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 75 

Served in the army and honorably discharged 16 

In the army *^ 

In the navy 21 

Dead 27 

Carried forward Ifido 3,048 



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Brought forward 1,895 3,048 

Having exemption papers 2 

Furnished substitutes 14 

Other causes 34 

1,945 

Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 1,103 

New enrollment of those clearly liable 29G 

Total enrollment 1,399 



Secoxd Ward. 
Total number of names on old enrollment , 1,194 

Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &g. : 

Out of Ward 39 

Over age 19 « 

Under age 2 

Alienage 35 

No trace 539 

Indefinite 27 

Names duplicated 42 

Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 9 

Claiming exemption 3 

Served in the army and honorably discharged 1 

In the army 7 

Deserted from the rebel army 1 

Disabled in the service 1 

Furnished substitutes 3 

Non-resident 78 

Dead 5 

Other causes 17 

828 

Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 366 

New enrollment of those clearly liable 179 

Total enrollment 545 



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TniED Ward. 

Total number of names on old enrollment 1,703 

Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : 

Out of Ward 68 

Over age 34 

Indoflnite, on account of removal, &c 93 

No trace 1^12 

In the navy 2 

In the army 16 

Dead 2 

Alienage 61 

Furnished substitutes 6 

Non-residents '3 

Served in the army and honorably discharged 5 

Having exemption papers 3 

Paid commutation - 2 

Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 27 

Other causes 2 

1,10G 

Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 597 

New enrollment of those clearly liable 368 

Total enrollment 965 

Fourth Wakd. 

Total number of names on old enrollment '. 4,731 

Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : 

Out of "Ward 9* 

Over age 1^3 

Indefinite, on account of removal, &c 76 

No trace 2,231 

In the navy 31 

Carried forward 2,545 4,731 

8 



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Brought forward 2,5i3 4,731 

In tlic army 100 

Dead 41 

Alienage 198 

Furnished substitutes 5 

Non-residents 72 

Served in the army and honorably discharged 13 

Having exemption papers 4 

Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 49 

Left the country 18 

Under age 6 

Three (3) years in the navy 1 

Claims exemption 1 

Other causes 76 

3,129 

Leaving, as clearly liable on old enrollment 1,602 

New enrollment of those clearly liable .• 697 

Total enrollment 2,299 ' 



APPENDIX B. 



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REPORT 

OF SUB-COiOnTTEE APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE COMPUTA- 
TION OF THE QUOTAS. 



The following statement of figures was rendered to your Sub-Committee 
by order of the Provost-Marshal General : 

Enrollment of the Loyal States -'-^-^ ■'^- 

Excess credits on December 31, 1864, after satisfying all caUs pre- 
vious to December 19, 1864 ^^^'^22 

Call of the President December 19, 1864 300,000 

Less number of men raised between December 
19th and 31st ^Q^"QQ 

Amount caUed for January 24 290,000 



DISTRICTS. 



Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventh — 

Eighth 

Ninth 

Totals 



ENROLL- 
MKXT. 



AGGKEGATE 
TKKMS OF 
SERTICK. 



27,191 
26,200 
22,060 
26,297 
26,139 
19,607 



148,154 



8,584 
8,310 
8,273 
8,410 
10,285 
6,822 



QUOTA 
JULY 18. 



4,071 
3,971 
3,485 
4,239 
4,346 
3,028 



4,513 
4.439 
4,788 
4,171 
5,939 
3,794 



50,684 



23,140 



27,644 



From these figures it appears that the call, as distributed on the 1st of 
January, is for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, minus ten thousand 
(10,onON men raised between December 19 and December 31. The caU be- 



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ing for one, two, or three years' men, the Department has assigned the 
quota on the following- basis : 

The two hundred and ninety thousand (290,000) men called for are con- 
sidered as eight hundred and seventy thousand. . .870,000 years of service. 

There are due to the whole United States, credits 
for extra men and years of service furnished 
under the calls of July, and up to the 1st of 
January, 1865, four hundred and eighty-eight 
thousand three hundred and twenty-two 488,322 years of service. 

JIaking the whole number of years assessed on 
the whole United States, under this call, one 
million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand 
three hundred and twenty-two I,:i58,;)22 years of service. 

Or, divided by three, equivalent to four himdred and fifty-lwo thousand 
seven hundred and seventy-four (452,774) three years' men. 

The quota of the Countj' of New York is then derived thus : 

As the enrollment of the whole United States, two million two 
himdred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and twenty- 
two 2,219,922 

Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one hundred 

and forty-eight thousand one hundred and filty-foui- 143,154 

So is the whole number of years assessed on the whole United 
States, one million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand 
three hundred and twenty-two 1,358,322 

To the number of years required from the County of New York, 

ninety thousand seven hundred and one 90,701 

Deduct from the number of years of service required, ninety 
thousand and seven hundred and one (90,701), and the excess 
of service due the County of New York on the Ist of January, 

1865, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and Ibrtj'-four 27,f44 

Leaving years of service due from New York County, sixty- 
three thousand and fifty-seven 63,057 



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VVTiich, divided by three, gives the number of men deficient 
by New York County now, viz. : Twenty-one thousand and 
nineteen (21,019), which may be one, two or three years men. 

We have the honor to state that these deductions from the figures fur- 
nished to us were read to General Fry, and to their correctness he assented. 

We have since discovered an insignificant error of computation, which 
malces the result twenty-one thousand and two (21,002) instead of twenty- 
one thousand and nineteen (21,019). 

With this exception the application of the principles upon wMch the as- 
signment of quotas is made is correct. 

Washington, February 3, 1865. 



APPENDIX C. 



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QUOTA AND FORMULA OF DECEMBER. 



War Department, Provost-Marshal General's Office, ) 
Washmgton, D. C, January 23, 1865. ) 

Brigadier^teeneral William Hats, 

Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, 

Southern Division, New York, New York City : 
The quota of your Division of Now York, under the call of the President 
for 300,000 men, dated December 19, 1864, is 16,887. 

This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the 
credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of 
service furnished by one, two, and three years' men. 

The quota of the First District is 2,686 

Second " 4,995 

Third " 2,610 

Fourth " 1,228 

Fifth " ; 961 

Sixth " 1,345 

Seventh " 899 

, Eighth " 

Ninth " 

Tenth " 2,163 

The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and 
which is to be considered in apportioning the quota of sub-districts, is 

Being an Excess of 
^. . ^ „ Years' Service 

Districts. 1 ears. o^ tj^g number of 

Meu Furnished. 

First 4,225 1,592 

Second 5,934 1,808 

Third 6,596 3,022 

Fourth 9,453 5,382 

Fifth 9,347 5,376 



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Being an Excess of 

T^iatripfa Ypav? ^^^^^' Service 

UlStnClS. X eai S. j,^ ^^^ number of 

Men Furnished. 

Sixth 7,705 4,220 

Seventh 9,695 5,456 

Eighth 

Ninth 

Tenth 3,846 1,572 

In order to equalize this credit, it will be added to the quota of the 
district in gross, and distributed among the sub-districts, according to the 
number enrolled in each. 

This will give the quota of the sub-district increased by the excess in 
proportion to the number enrolled ; but as the number of one, two, and 
three years' men respectively have been fiu-nished without regard to the 
number enrolled, the Provost-ilarshal will subtract from the gross quota 
tlie actual amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has 
furnished. 

The enclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- 
districts. 

Suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing 
eight (8) sub-districts is one thousand meu, aud that the quota in that 
district under the call of July IStli, 1804, was 1,600 men, which was filled as 
follows : 





Number 

of 

Meu 

Furnished. 


PERIOD OF SERVICE. 


Total 
Number 
of Years' 
Service. 


Excess 

of No. of 

Years' 

Service 

over No. of 

Men. 


SUB-DISTRICT. 


One 
Year. 


Two 
Years. 


Three 
Years. 


First 

Second 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 


209 
240 
160 
260 
180 
240 
140 
180 


140 
ISO 

80 
120 
100 
120 

60 
132 


20 
10 
12 

no 

10 
20 
10 
24 


40 
50 
08 

110 
70 

100 
70 
24 

532 


300 
350 
308 
510 
330 
460 
290 
252 


100 
110 
148 
250 
150 
•220 
150 
72 


SLxth. 


Seventh 

Eighth 


Total 


1,600 


9;!2 


136 


2,800 


1,200 



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It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of 
men furnished in the First Sub-district is 100, in the Second, 110, &c., &c. 
Total in the district, 1,200. 

The quota of the district under the present call is 1,000, to this add the 
excess (1,200), making 2,200; then, as the number enrolled in the district 
(20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to its quota, which 
will be reduced by subtracting from its share of the excess. 



SUB- 
DISTKICT, 


Number 

of 
Enrolled 

ia 
District. 


Quota, 

with 

Excess 

Added, 

1,000 

+ 
1,200. 


Ntimber 
Enrolled 
in Sub- 
district. 


Gross 
Quota. 


Excess 
Fur- 
nished 
by 
Sub- 
district. 


Net 
Quota or 
Number 
required 

under 
this Call. 


First 


20,000 
20,000 
20,000 
20,000 
20,000 
20,000 
20,000 
20,000 


2,200 
2,200 
2,200 
2,200 
2,200 
2,200 
2,200 
2,200 


2,400 
2,600 
2,000 
3.200 
2,200 
2,800 
2,000 
2,G00 


2G-i 
308 
220 
352 
242 
308 
220 
28G 


100 
110 
148 
250 
150 
220 
150 
72 


164 


Second 

Third 

Foiu-th 

Fifth 


198 
72 

102 
92 


Sixth 


88 


Seventh 

Eighth 


70 

214 




20,000 


2,200 


1,200 


1,000 



The above formida is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by 
which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the 
amount of credit dtie them. 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal C^eral. 



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QUOTA AND FORMULA OF JANUARY. 



[ 



War Department, 
Provost-MarsSai. General's Office, 

Washington, J). C, January 24, 1865. 

Brigadier-General Hats, 

Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, 
New York City ; 

The quota of the Southern Division of New Yorlv, under the call of the 
President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 
1864, is twenty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-one (28,631). 

This is the number required under the call, after takini? into account the 
credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating tJie number of years of 
service furnished by one, two and three years' men. 

The quota of the First District is 1,065 

Second " 3,172 

Third '^ 1,741 

Fourth " 4,039 

Fifth " 3,907 

Sixth " 3,023 

Seventh " 3,970 

Eighth " 3,348 

Ninth " ;.... 2,732 

Tentih " 1,634 

Total 28,631 

In this estimate, the Provost-Marshal General has taken into account all 
credits to which the several districts are entitled on account of men raised 
up to December 31, 1864, including excess under former calls. 



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In order to equalize this credit, you will multiply the quota of the district 
by three, thus reducing it from a three years' to a one years' basis. To the 
product, add the excess of years' service, and then distribute this sum to 
the several sub-districts, in proportion to the number enrolled in each. 

This gives the number of years of service required from each sub- 
district, increased by the excess. From this number deduct the excess 
which the sub-district has actually furnished, and the remainder is the 
actual number of years' service required, which, divided by three, gives 
the actual number of men required from the sub-d' strict under the call. 

Suppose the quota, under the present call, in a given district containing 
eight (8) sub-districts, is 1,000 men, and that the quota in that district, 
under the call of July 18, 1864, was 1,600, which was fllled as follows : 







FEKIOD OF SERVICE. 


m 

!-> 

a . 
<v a> 

O !-> 

o 
H 


O o o 

o'F . 

£5 r-o 




03 




CO 


Excess of 
years' st 
over N 
men. 


First Sub-district 


200 
2-10 
160 
260 
180 
240 
140 
ISO 


140 
ISO 

120 
100 
120 
60 
132 


20 
10 
12 
30 
10 
20 
10 
24 


40 
50 
68 

110 
70 

100 
70 
24 


300 
350 
308 
510 
330 
460 
290 
262 


100 


Second " 


110 


Third "• 


148 


Foiu'th '' 


250 


Fifth '• 


160 


Sixth '• 


220 


Seventh " 


150 


Eighth '' 


72 






Total 


1,600 


i;;;2 


130 


532 


2,800 


1,200 







It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of men 
furnished in the First Sub-district is 100 ; in the Second 110, &c., &c. Total 
in the District, 1,200. 

The quota of the district under the present call is 1,000 ; this, multiplied 
by three (3), gives 3,000 years of service ; to this add the excess (1,200) ; 
then, as the number enrolled in the district (20,000) is to this sum (4,200), 
60 is the number enrolled in the sub-district to the number of years' service 



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required, increased by its excess ; from which deduct the excess of years of 
service which the sub-district has furnished, and divide the remainder by 
three (3), to find the quota of the sul)-district. 







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ct. 




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ct. 


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12; 


12; 


First Sub-district . . . 


20,000 


4,200 


2,400 


504 


100 


404 


135 


Second " 


20,000 


4,200 


2,800 


688 


110 


478 


159 


Third " 


20.000 


4,200 


2,000 


420 


148 


272 


100 


Fourth " 


20,000 


, 4,200 


3,200 


672 


250 


422 


141 


Fifth " 


20.000 


4,200 


2,200 


462 


160 


312 


104 


SLxth " 


20.000 


4,200 


2,800 


588 


220 


368 


122 


Seventh " 


20.000 


4,200 


2,000 


420 


150 


270 


90 


Eighth " 


20,000 


4,200 


2,600 


546 


72 


474 


158 


Total 


20,000 

1 


1 4,200 


20,000 


4,200 


1,200 


3,000 


1,000 



The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by 
which they will apportion the quotas of eub-districts, and determine the 
amount of credit due them. 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost MarsUal General. 



APPENDIX D. 



131 



ADDRESS 

OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVEENOE FENTON TO THE PEOPLE 
OF THE STATE. 



Executive Department, ) 
Albany, N. F., February 1, 1865. J 

To the People of the State of New York : 

A call has been made by the General Government upon this State for an 
assigned quota of troops, in addition to those previously furnished, to 
recruit the ranks of the Federal armies. As the circumstances attendant 
upon this demand have been such as to excite much popular feeling, I deem 
it proper to address 3-ou officially upon the subject. 

It is not to be diguised that the manner in which the quota of this State 
has been assigned and distributed is too well calculated to justify unfavor- 
able criticism. Nor have I hesitated, by every means at my command, to 
impress this truth upon the authorities at Washington. The character of 
my efforts in this direction, and the spirit in which they have been met, 
need only be briefly alluded to at this time, as a full exposition of them will 
be embraced in my answer to legislative resolutions of inquiry upon the sub- 
ject. I have endeavored — faithfully and earnestly, I may claim— to har- 
monize a jealous and watchful regard for the interests of this State with 
the highest suggestions of patriotic impulse, keeping constantly in view the 
fact that the loyal masses, while eager that their rights shall be maintained, 
have no desire to be relieved from any sacrifices they may justly be called 
upon to make for the common weal. 

Upon a thorough review of the premises, it seemed conclusive to me that 
the basis upon which the quotas, as assigned at Washington, were to be 



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filled, was erroneous, inasmuch as it practically required those localities 
which had filled their former quota with one year men to furnish all the 
men to fill the present call. 

I took early occasion to bring these views to the attention of the War 
Department, by dispatching one of my military aids to Washington, and by 
correspondence, without, howerer, succeeding in obtaining prompt and 
definite action upon the propositions thus presented. While the discussion 
upon this point was pending, the subject was still fiu"ther complicated and 
the ditHculties increased, through what is termed, by the Provost-Marshal 
General, a revision of enrollments and credits. By this revision, an addi- 
tion of 15,255 is made to the quota previously announced. In reference to 
this changed state of the case, I have taken such measures, by a personal 
visit to Washington, and by the representations of a committee of eminent 
members of the Legislature, as are calculated to lead to an adjustment 
upon a basis satisfactory to every patriotic mind. I am not without hopes 
that a desirable result will be attained. 

Meanwhile, it becomes my duty to urge upon you, the people of the State, 
the importance of such conduct, in this exigency, as is in conformity with 
the dignity and virtue of true loyal sentiment. Especially injudicious and 
injurious is that temper which assumes intentional injustice on the part of 
the Federal Government, and proceeds to the conclusion that the State is 
necessarily in an attitude of hostility to the demands of the Federal 
authorities. At a time when the subject matter in dispute is unsettled, and 
the definite determination remains to be announced, all discussion calcu- 
lated to embitter feeling should be avoided. Let us patiently and manfully 
await this decision— resolved, whatever may transpire, that nothing ehaH 
be done to hazard the fortunes of our sacred cause, or diminish the patriot- 
ism of the Commonwealth. Let us at the outset declare that everything 
honor commands us to do shall be cheerfully and promptly done. Let us 
subordinate every other consideration to the one controlling ambition, to 
pursue such a course as shall give most vigor and efficiency to the arms of 
the Eepublic, enlisted in behalf of Liberty, Order and Union. The cause 
which demands our support is sacred, and appeals to the best instincts of 
our humanity. 

As New York has been heretofore under every discouragement and ad- 



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versity, so she will continue to be in the future, foremost among the States 
in every effort for national preservation. The armies in the field, depleted 
by the drains of exhaustive warfare, must be replenished. The places of 
the noble brave who have fallen must be supplied in the steadily advancing 
columns. Now, when rebellion totters to its fall— when every day sheds 
the lustre of new achievements upon our battle-crimsoned ensign — no 
measures on our part must be withheld which will hasten the auspicious 
conclusion of strife, and the re-establishment of national authority over all 
disputed territory. 

It is possible for us to answer the requisition made upon us without resort 
to conscription. To this accomplishment pride and patriotism alike impel 
us. Let the press throughout the State— recognized exponent of popular 
opinion— give emphasis to the will of the loyal masses. Let local boards of 
officers pursue such policy as mil surely and most speedily stimulate the 
spirit of volunteering in the several districts. Let capitalists and men in 
lucrative pursuits exhibit, in their readiness to make contributions for the 
grand object in view, the same spirit which has so uniformly animated 
them in the past. Let every loyal citizen, in whatever sphere, resolve to 
do the utmost to make the example of New York at this time a conspicuous 
object of emulation by her sister States. Thus we shall animate, with new 
fervor and brighter zeal, the hearts of our brave soldiers, who will send 
us echo to the shouts of victory from Atlanta and Wilmington and Savan- 
nah, in triumphant rejoicings over prostrate rebellion. Thus we shall per- 
form our full share of the duties and achievements of this crisis, and write 
upon the pages of our counti-y's history a record to which our children and 
children's children may point with pride and veneration. 

R. E. FENTON. 



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MESSAGE 

OP HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR FENTON TO 
THE LEGISLATURE. 



Stcate of New York in Assembly, { 
Albany, January 30, 1865. J 

On motion of Mr. Reed : 

Whereas, Information is abroad that the official quotas of this State, 
under the present call of the President for 300,000 men, as published on or 
about the 7th day of January, instant, has been increased from 42,000 to 
62,000 men, which increase is apparently without explanation ; and 

TVhcrcas, The people of this State are as loyal and devoted to the national 
cause as at any period, but are surprised and sensibly affected by this 
change, which to them is inexplicable and unsatisfactory ; therefore 

Hesolved, That if not incompatible with the public interest. His Excel- 
lency the GoTernor is respectfully requested to communicate to this House 
all information he may have respecting the increased quotas of this State, 
the reason or basis of the same, and his action in connection or in reference 

thereto. 

By order, J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk. 

MESSAGE. 

State of New York, Exectjtite Department, ) 
Albany, February 1. 1865. j 

To the Assembly : 

In compliance with the request contained in the foregoing resolution, I 
have the honor to submit the following : 

In view of the importance of the subject, I deem it due to the repre- 
sentatives of the people of the State that a full history of the action taken 
in reference to the quotas and the mode of fiUing thera be given. 



135 



Upon the first assignmcTit of quotas, under the present call, by the 
Provost-Marshal General, it appeared to me that there must be gi-eat 
inequality as between the districts in the number of men they should 
furnish for the service, and this soon became a source of general complaint 
and dissatisfaction among those districts which had heretofore furnished 
most largely of one year men. While, at that time, I do not suppose the 
quota of the State (about 46,000) was more than its just proportion of the 
300,000 called for, still with the conviction that the quota, as assigned to 
the different districts, was unequal in its practical operations, I sent 
Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Stonehouse, Assistant Adjutant General, on the 10th 
day of January, to Washington, in reference to means of filling the quota, 
and on the 12th instant sent my Aide-de-camp, Colonel George W. Palmer, 
to confer with the authorities at the War Department, giving them fully 
my views upon the subject, and directing him to communicate them to the 
Provost-Marshal General and the Secretary of War. Colonel Palmer 
reached Washington on the 13th instant, and obtained an interview with 
the Provost-Marshal General and Assistant Secretary of War— the Secretary 
himself being absent from the city— after which he submitted the following 
communication in writing, with the understanding that the matter should 
be submitted to the Secretary of War on his retiu-n, viz. : 

" Washington, January 14, 1865. 
" General : 

" I am directed by the Governor of the State of New York to represent 
to you the difficulties under which many of the districts in that State labor 
in the assignment of quotas under the last call of the President for 300,000 
men, and to ask that some mode be adopted which will tend to relieve 
them from their heavy burden and distribute the number of men to be 
raised more equally between the several districts. In filling the quota 
under the call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men, made under the new law 
requiring the term of enlistment as well as the number of men furnished 
to be taken into account, the effect of a longer or shorter term of service 
was not regarded in many districts through ignorance of the operation of 
the law, from an apprehension that no more men would be needed— a view 
which was encouraged in various ways — and from a strong desire to avoid 
conscription, which required immediate action, with the necessity of en- 



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listing ^vlthol^t regard to the terms of service. The result is that many dis- 
tricts furnished almost exclusively one year men. 

" These were generally inland and rural districts, whose location preclu- 
ded them from obtaining recruits from a class of transient men and for- 
eigners, and compelled them to send their own stiu-dy yeomanry into the 
field, paying large bounties as an inducement, and thus getting the very 
best class of soldiers. Other districts, having greater facilities for furnish- 
ing men, with less efibrt, enlisted three years men. 

" The assignment of quotas, imder the present call, though made accord- 
ing to law, throws the burden of raising all the men upon the districts 
which have enlisted the one year men, and which arc entitled' to the 
credit of doing everything they could to fill the quota, and actually fur- 
nished a superior class of soldiers. It is worthy of consideration, also, 
that if the credits, on account of which the late call was made, could have 
been allowed before, instead of after the call of 50,000 men, and the quota 
suflScient to raise the required number of men been then assigned to the 
various districts, the relative disparity in the number of men to be raised 
would not have existed. The quota would have increased in proportion to 
the number of men and not in proportion to the years of service. It is 
easier to procure one tliree years man than three one year men, and es- 
pecially when they have to be taken from the bone and sinew of those dis- 
tricts whose honest laboring classes are already sadly depleted, and it is 
difficult to carry on the labor of the country by reason of it, and it would 
seem eminently proper to adopt some plan, if possible, which would at 
once relieve this difficulty and do no injustice to any locality, nor yet vio- 
late the laws of the land. 

" It is confidently believed that if, under the last call for 300,000 men, the 
term of enlistment should be regarded as the basis upon which the quotas 
might be filled, and men enlisted for two and three years be allowed to 
credit as two and three one year men, this burden would soon equalize it- 
self, and if the required number of men should not be obtained under this 
call, repeated calls might be made until the army should be sufficiently sup- 
plied with men. 

" I am satisfied, if this plan can be adopted, that the people of those dis- 



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iTicts wliich now have such large quotas to fill, would go earnestly and 
cheerfully to work to procure good men for long terms of service, feeling 
that they had a chance to place themselves upon an approximate equal 
footing with otlier districts which had already furnished three years men ; 
but if, on tlie contrary, it shall be decided that these districts must furnish 
now the full number of men called for, I greatly fear that the people will 
settle down into a state of despondency, and, thinking that their burden is 
greater than they can bear, do Uttle or nothing toward raising the requi- 
site men for the service. 

"Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

" GEORGE W. PALMER, 

''■ColonelandA. B.C." 

The case being thus presented to the War Department, I awaited the re- 
turn and decision of the Secretary of War until the evening of the 20th 
inst., when Col. Stonehouse handed me the following telegram from Pro- 
vost-Marshal General Fry : 

Washington, D. C, January 20, 1865. 
To Col. J. B. STONEnoTJSE : 

The revised quotas will be sent in a day or two. The quota of New York 
will be increased by the revision, and will probably be a little over sixty 
thousand (00,000). jAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 

Tills large increase of the quota of the State from forty-six thousand 
(46,000) to sixty-one thousand (61,000) was surprising to me, and I took the 
first train on the morning of the 21st for Washington, to do what was in my 
power toward correcting oiu- quota, and if possible prevail upon the Secre- 
tary of War and Provost-Marshal General to adopt my proposition as to the 
mode of filling the quotas. I at once obtained an interview on my arrival 
at Washington with them, and urged the adoption of making one year's 
service as the basis of credit in filling this call, thus giving an opportunity 
to speedily equalize the number of men to be raised, between the several 
States, districts, and sub-districts in the country. I called their attention 
to the above written statement left in the raattej- by Col. Palinei-, and en- 
dorsed the following upon it, viz. : 



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" I respectfully tender the suggestions of Col. Palmer, and ask early con- 
sideration and reply. The views herein submitted are still in force, and I 
can only add that it is my earnest desire they may receive the approval of 
the Provost-Marshal General and the Secretary of War. 

"R. E, FENTON. 
"January 22, 1865." 

I will not attempt to give a detailed account of the interview or the ar- 
guments used orally at this, time in favor of the proposition, but merely 
state that I endeavored to impress upon their minds the injustice toward a 
large portion of the State, which wonld result from the enforcement of the 
system of filling the quotas then adopted at the Department, and the im- 
portance of so changing it as to make all acknowledge that there was a dis- 
position at the Department to divide the burdens to be borne as equally as 
possible. 

In reference to the matter of the great increase of the quota of the 
State, while I was not prepared, nor had I the figures to prove their incor- 
rectness, yet in my interview with the Provost-Marshal General and Secre- 
tary of War, I presented substantially the following statistics and views for 
their consideration therewith : 

The quota of New York imder the call of February 1, 1864, for five 
hundred thousand (500,000) men, was eighty-one thousand nine hundred 
and ninetj'-three (81,993). On this basis the State would have to furnish, 
on a call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, forty-nine thousand 
one hundred and ninety-five (49,195). Under the call of July 18, 1864, the 
number assigned to this State as its quota of five hundred thousand 
(500,000) was eighty-nine thousand thi-ee hundred and eighteen (89,318). 
A call for three hundred thousand (300,000) on this basis would make the 
quota for the State fifty-three thousand nine hundred (53,900). The State, 
at the date of the present call, had a surplus of six thousand seven hun- 
dred and fifty (6,750) men over aU former calls, which should go to reduce 
its quota under the present call. 

Assuming that the State of New York had fiuTiished comparatively as 
many three years' men as the other States, it will be seen that the quota 



139 



under this call, as originally assigned, is nearly correct. For instance, 

take the quota on the basis of July, 1864, of. 53,900 

And deduct the surplus 6,750 

It would leave the quota 47,150 

The quota as at first assigned under the last call was 46,821 

Making the difference only 322 

I stated it was difficult to see how such great changes as had been made 
in the quota of New York could be rendered necessary by the alterations 
in the enrollments, and the addition of credits since the promulgation of 
the first assignment of the quota. 

I also referred to the large increase of the quotas in the City of New 
York, which seemed to me extraordinary. In general terms, as near as I 
now can recoUect, the explanations for these great changes in the quotas, 
as given by General Fry, were : 

That there had been credits given to a considerable extent to some States 
and localities that belonged to others, and which had been corrected since 
the first assignment. 

That owing to the neglect of mustering officers to make their reports of 
musters promptly, and from other causes, large numbers of credits of men 
enlisted prior to the last call had been reported from some States and lo- 
calities, and credits for them had been given. 

Thus many of the States and localities has corrected and reduced their 
enrollments largely, some to a greater extent than others, which, when 
taken into consideration, materially changed the quotas. 

That by reason of some or all of these causes the differences and changes 
complained of as between States and localities in the first and second as- 
signment of quotas were perfectly explained, and that the quotas as now 
assigned were just and right, as near as he could make them. 

I understood at that time that the question of assignment of quotas, as 
between the several States, under the present call, would not be again 
opened. 

I returned to Albany on the morning of the 24th. I sent the following 
telegram to the Provost-Marshal General : 



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Ar.BANY, N. Y., January 24, 1865. 
James B. Fey, 

Provost-Marshal General, Washington, D. C. : 

Upon my return I met Mith additional reasons in favor of my proposition. 
I hope yourself and Secretary of War will conclude to adopt tliem. 

R. E. FENTON. 

To which, on the same day, I received the following answer : 

Washington. D. C, January 24, 1865. 
Governor Fenton— 

When you receive the apportionment of quotas to districts, and under- 
stand the manner in which they are to be sub-divided among towns, I 
think you will find that there is not much to object to in the arrangement. 
Please, however, submit, at your earliest convenience, the additional rea- 
sons in favor of your proposition, to which you refer In your dispatch of 
to-day, that I may lay the same promptly before the Secretary. 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-MarsMl General. 

On the morning of the 25th I forwarded by mail to the Provost-Marshal 
General the following reply : 

State of New Yoek, Exicutive Department, | 
Albany, N. Y., January 15, 1865. J 
General — 

What I meant to have you understand by my dispatch of yesterday, in 
stating that there were "additional reasons in favor of ray propositions," 
was simply that the pressure of public sentiment is becoming more intense 
in favor of the adoption of the system which I proposed. 

In view of all the circumstances and the manifest equity of proposition 
to take one year service as the basis of credit in filling the present quota, 
thus giving those districts which have heretofore fmnished one year men 
the same chance now which others have had to furnish years of service ; 
I am convinced, as a matter of policy alone, that this plan should be 
adopted, as it would secure the hearty co-operation of the people in raising 
men for the service, and produce that moral eflect upon the soldiers which 
is important to the effective condition of an army, and which can be but 



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obtained by a healthy home feeling. If in adopting this policy the requi- 
site number of men should not be obtained, another call might be made 
for the deficiency which, under the operation of this system, would be dis- 
tributed among all the districts in the country, and thus render the burden 
more equal. 

Very respectfully, yoiu" obedient servant, 

R. E. FENTON. 
To Brigadiek-General J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General. 

On the 26th of January, a delegation of honorable gentlemen from the 
Senate and Assembly indicated to me their willingness to visit Washington, 
and urge again upon the authorities the adoption of the proposition al- 
ready submitted by me, and, after full consultation, they left the next day 
for that city. On the day following (28th), I again sent Colonel Stonehouse 
with full instructions and figures, as to quotas, to confer wilh tliis commit- 
tee and present anew to the Department ; and on the 30th I sent him 
fiuther instructions in writing as follows : 

State op New York, Executive Department, | 
Alouny, January 30, 18G5. ) 

Col. J. B, Stonehouse, A. A. G., State of New York : 

Colonel — 

In addition to the instructions given in reference to your commu- 
nications with the authorities at the War Department as to the correc- 
tion of the quota of this State, and the mode of filling it, you are further 
directed, if my former proposition is not accepted, to urge that the time for 
raising the men, to fill the quota in those districts which furnished one year 
men, be extended tiU the term for which these men enlisted expires ; and 
that the privilege of correcting the enrollment be continued until the very 
latest practicable time before the draft, and the final quota be made up from 
this coiTected enrollment. 

And further you are directed to urge, in any event, that the time for 
the execution of the draft be postponed. It may not be important, how- 
ever, to insist upon this if my proposition in regard to the mode of filling 
the quota be accepted. 

Very truly, E. E. FENTON. 



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This comprises the action taL:eu in relation to the subject matter of the 
foregoing resolutions, and I can only add that whatever may be the final 
decision upon the questions thus presented— while, if adverse, we cannot 
but feel the inequality and hardship— yet the best interests of the country 
and the high sense of duty to the cause in which we are engaged demand 
that we submit with becoming cheerfulness to what we have been unable 
to change, and put forth every possible effoit to fill the quota assigned to 
the State in the manner prescribed. 

B. E. FENTON. 



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LETTER OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL 

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, IN 
EXPLANATION OF THE DECEMBER QUOTAS. 



War DeparTiMent, 
Provost-Marshal General's Office, 
Washington, I). C, Jan. 12, 18G5. 

His Excellency Stephen Miller, 

Governor of Minnesota : 
Sir— 

Your communication of tlie Sd inst., in relation to the quotas of the dis- 
tricts in the State of Minnesota, has been received, and in reply thereto I 
have the honor to state that — 

The call of the President for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, dated 
July IS. 1864, having been greatly reduced by credits on account of Army 
and Navy enlistments, which had not heretofore been credited, it became 
necessary to make an additional call of three hundred thousand (300,000) 
to make up the deficiency, and to preserve the present strength of the 
Army and Navy. 

It was not expected that the call of July 18, 1864, for five hundred thou- 
sand (500,000), would put that number of men in service, because the Act 
of Congress, under which the call was made, directed that all enlistments 
made in the Navy from the commencement of the rebellion until the 24th 
of February, 1864, should be credited upon the quota, and these, with other 
equitable claims for enlistments not previously credited, reduced that call 
and rendered necessary the one of December 19, 1804, for three hundred 
thousand (300,000). 

The object, therefore, of the last call is to put three hundred thousand 
(300,000) men in the service. Whether they arc enlisted for one, two, or 
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three years, they will be counted as units in filling the quota, and the ex- 
cess or credit which any locality may be entitled to, on account of filling 
its quota with three year men, will be estimated in the assignment of fu- 
ture quotas, should there be another call, upon the same principle that has 
varied the quotas under the present call, because some localities have filled 
their quotas under the call of July 18, 1864, with three years men, and 
others with one year men. 

It will be observed that the numbers of men to be furnished under the 
present call are not in proportion to tlie population of States or districts, 
nor to the number enrolled. Had all localities filled the call for five hun- 
dred thousand (500,000) with three years men, or all one year men, or all 
in the same pi'oportion of both, the number of men to be furnished under 
the present call would be in proportion to the number enrolled, and ap- 
proximate three-fifths of the quota under the call for five hundred thou- 
sand (500,000), varied only to correspond with the changes in the enroll- 
ment as revised and corrected. 

But as it woidd be unjust and illegal to require a district, which had filled 
its quota under the last call with three years men, to furnish as many men 
imder the present call as an equal district which had filled its quota under 
the last call with one year men, the former having furnished three times 
the number of years of service which the latter had furnished, it became 
necessary to estimate the number of years of service which each State, 
district, and sub-district had furnished respectively, so that in ascertaining 
the required number for each district, in order to obtain three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men, each locality would receive full credit for the num- 
ber of years of service fiu-nished under the last call, or excess carried for- 
ward and credited upon that call, previous calls being filled with three 
years men, or enlistments reduced to the three years basis. 

The call of December 19, 1864, having been made to make up deficiencies 
under the call of July 18, 18G4, it is not to be expected that the number of 
men required from localities will correspond with the number of enrolled, 
or their quotas imder the call for five hundred thousand (500,000). In or- 
der, therefore, to ascertain what number of men is due from a given dis- 
trict, we must look to what it actually furnished under the call of July 18, 
Instead of what it was required to furnish. Thus, where two districts, 



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having the same enrollment, were required, under the call of July 18, 18G4, 
to fiu-nish two thousand (2,000) men each, and one actually fm-uished but 
one thousand (1,000) men, while the other filled its quota, it would not be 
lawful for the latter district, which had put two thousand (2,000) men in 
service, to bo required now to fui-nish the same number as the former, 
which had furnished only one thousand (1,000). 

But suppose that both of the above districts had filled their quotas, the 
former with one year men, and the latter with three years men, the one 
furnishing two thousand (2,000) and the other six thousand (G,000) years of 
service ; now, as the law provides that quotas shall be assigned "■ among 
the districts of the several States, considering and allowing for the num- 
bers already furnished, as aforesaid, and the time of their service," in as- 
signing a quota under a call to malie up deficiencies, the deficiency of 
years' service, as well as the deficiencies in number, is to be estimated and 
the quotas varied accordingly. 

As before said, the object of the present call is to raise three hundred 
thousand (300,000) men, and they will be required from the different local- 
ities in proportion to the number enrolled, and the number which such 
localities were deficient, or in excess, under the call for five hundred thou- 
sand (500,000). 

This principle was announced from the Provost-Marshal General's Bu- 
reau when the quotas under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) 
men were announced, or about that time (see opinion of Solicitor of War 
Department, herewith), and the benefits that would result from three years' 
enlistments, and the law governing the subject explained. To secure 
three years men, the Government ofi"ered three hundred doUars ($300) 
bounty, and paid but one hundred ($100) to one year men ; municipal 
authorities generally contributed local bounties in similar proportion. 

The law having provided that the periods of service heretofore furnished 
should be considered in assigning quotas, the question then to be deter- 
mined is, at what time shall the credit be applied. 

As it is impossible to follow the fortune of eacli individual soldier, and 
reckon the period of his actual service, it follows that either the credit for 
the period for which they eirlist should be given when the men enter the 
service, or withheld imtil the expiration of the three years term. 



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The nile has always been, under all calls, that when a soldier is accepted 
into the service, he is received and credited for the term of his enlistment 
or draft, the Government taking the responsibility that he will serve for 
the full period of his enlistment, and in no case has any locality been 
called upon to replace men lost to the service by death, disability or deser- 
tion. 

Enlistments for six months, nine months, one and two years, under for- 
mer calls, were counted as of that term on entering the service, and, us 
such, reduced to the three years service basis. 

The period of service is reckoned as a unit, having no fractional parts, so 
far as credit is concerned : a soldier who enlists for three years, and dies 
or is discharged at the end of twelve months, is credited to his sub-district 
as a three years man ; and the man who enlists for one year, and is dis- 
charged in a week after enlistment, is credited as a one year man. To 
await the expiration of three years, that is, until the service had been ren- 
dered, would defeat the object of the law, and would probably delay the 
draft until after the close of the war. It must follow, then, that the amount 
of credit to be given is, and always has been dependent upon the period 
for which the soldier enters the service. When a district presents an ac- 
ceptable recruit for three years, and he is received as such by the Govern- 
ment, that district has done all it can do in the premises, and the Govern- 
ment takes the responsibility that the soldier will serve his term of enlist- 
ment. 

This being admitted, the time to apply the credit, or to take into account 
the amount of credits to which the district is entitled, is when a settlement 
is made with all the districts, with a view to assigning quotas under a new 
call. This follows, not merely as a matter of convenience in computation, 
but as a matter of necessity, in order to do exact justice to all the difi'erent 
States and districts, and moreover, is in exact accordance with tlie terms 
of the statute, which provides that 

"In assigning to the districts the number of men to be famished there- 
from, the President shall take into consideration the number of volunteers 
and militia fm-nished by and from the several States in which said districts 
are situated, and the period of their service since the commencement of 
the present rebellion, and shall so make said assignment as to equalize the 



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numbers among tlie districts of tlie scverul States, considering and allow- 
ing for the numbers already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their 
service." 

And again, section 2, Act of February 24, 1864 : 

" That the quota of each ward of a city, town, tovmship, precinct or 
election district, or of a county, where the county is not divided into wards, 
towns, townships, precincts or election districts, shall be, as nearly as pos- 
sible, in proportion to the number of men resident therein liable to military 
service, taking into account, as far as practicable, the number which has 
been previously furnished therefrom." 

I have the honor to inclose a copy of Circular No. 1, of 1865, which pro- 
vides that the quotas assigned under the call of December 10, 1864, for 
three hundred thousand (300,000) men, are not to be reduced except by 
actual enlistments since the 19th of December, 1864. 

The rule in applying credits is, that they should be deducted from the 
quota of the call that produced them. All men raised since the call of July 
18, 1864, are credited upon the quota under that call ; if the quota is more 
than filled, it is carried as excess to the credit of the locality, and taken 
into account in the assignment of the quota under the call of December 19, 
1864. and Provost-Marshals are instructed that, in determining the quotas 
of sub-districts under the present call, they will apply such excess accord- 
ingly ; and all men raised since December 19 are, of course, credited upon 
the call of that date. In crediting the excess that is carried forward from 
the call of July 18, 1864, and applied to the call of December 19, 1864, 1 con- 
sider not only the number of men of which the excess is composed, bul 
also the period of their service ; and the quotas assigned under the call of 
December 19 are thus reduced by this excess of service, and hence they 
should not be fiu-ther reduced, except by enlistments subsequent to De- 
cember 19, 1804, the date of the call for three hundred thousand (300,000j 
men. 

The credits to the State of Minnesota (imder the call of July 18, 1864), up 
to November 30, 1864, show that the men furnished for one year was two 
thousand six hundred and eighty-five (2,685) ; for two years two hundred 
and four (204) ; for three years sixty-one (61) ; a very large proportion, as 



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vrill be obser\-ed, being one year men. The excess of credits on the 1st 
day of August was one thousand four hundred and seven (1,407), of which 
the First District is credited with one thousand and thii'ty-seven (1,037), 
and the Second District with three hundred and seventy (370), and credit 
has been given for three years term of service on each unit. The First 
District furnished one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine (1,859) more 
years of service than the Second District, and consequently tlie larger num- 
ber to be furnished, under call of December 19, falls on the Second District. 
If there is any error in these figures, I shall be happy to correct it when 
pointed out. 

Very respectfully, ^ 

Your obedient servant, 

JAMES B. FRY, 
Provost-Marshal General. 



APPENDIX F. 



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EXTRACT FROM A COMMUNICATION 

ADDRESSED TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
STATES, BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYL- 
VANIA, IN RELATION TO JANUARY QUOTAS. 



Sir— 

You may not have been heretofore apprised of the fact that your subor- 
dinates are wholly disregarding the Act of 24th of February, 1864. They 
are proceeding in open and direct violation of it, and are thus creating, 
naturally, great confusion and uncertainty among the people. They an- 
nounce, on the one hand, that although a three years man counts only as a 
one year man toward the quota on which he volunteers, yet that he shall be 
counted as three one year men toward the quota on a future call. This is 
directly in the teeth of the law. On the other hand they are cyphering 
out a deficiency on the last call, by counting three one year men as only 
equivalent to one three years man, which is equally against law. Thus the 
quota of Pennsylvania, under the call of the 18th of July last, was filled in 
accordance with the law by men to serve for not less than one year. The 
term of service of these men is not yet half expired, and yet your subor- 
dinates are threatening a draft to fill an alleged deficiency on that very 
call, the existence of which they attempt to make out by persisting in their 
unlawful and unsubstantial theories and calculations. 

Our people know that the Government requires more men. They are 
willing to furnish them, heavy as the burden has become on the industrial 
population. Let the requirement be made in the clear and definite shape 
which the law provides for, and it will be cheerfully complied with. But 
it is hardly to be tolerated that your subordinates should be permitted lon- 
ger to pursue the system of substituting for the law an eccenti'ic plan of 
their own. 



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Sir, on behalf of the freemen of this Commonwealth, who have always 
given a cheerful and hearty support to your Government in the prosecu- 
tion of this war, it is my duty to insist, and I do insist, that you enforce 
upon your subordinates that obedience to the law, which you owe, as well 
as they and all of us. It is of evil example, it tends to enfeeble— nay to 
destroy— the just power of the Government, that you should suffer your of- 
ficers to treat with open contempt any acts of Congress, and especially 
those which you have yourself approved, and which regulate a matter of 
such deep and delicate moment as the enforcing a draft for the military 
service. Relying heartily on your wisdom and justice to set right what has 
thus been going wrong, and to compel henceforth, on the part of all a 
proper respect for and obedience to the laws of the land. 



THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. 

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



A PROCLAMATION. 

Wltercas, By the Act approved July 4, 18G4, entitled "An Act further to 
regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, 
and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the United 
States may, " at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number 
of men, as volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two and three 
years, for military service," and " that in case the quota of, [or] any part 
thereof, of any town, township, ward of a citY, precinct, or election dis- 
trict, or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled within the space 
of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately order a 
draft for one year to fill such quota, or any part thereof, which may be un- 
filled; and 

Wfiereas, By the credits allowed in accordance with the Act of Con- 
gress on the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, made July 18, 
ISfii, the number of men to be obtained under that call was reduced to two 
hundred and eighty thousand (280,000) ; and 



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Whereas, The operations of the enemy in certain States have rendered it 
impracticable to procure from them their full quotas of troops under said 
call; and 

Whereas, From the foregoing causes, but two hundred and forty thousand 
(240,000) men have been put into the army, navy and marine corps, under 
the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency on that call of two hun- 
dred and sixty thousand (260,000). 

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of 
America, in order to supply the aforesaid deficiency, and to provide for cas- 
ualties in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this 
my call for three hundred thousand (300,000) volunteers, to serve for one, 
two or three years. The quotas of the States, districts, and sub-districts, 
under this call, will be assigned by the War Department, through the Bu- 
reau of the Provost-Marshal General of the United States, and, " in case 
the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a city, pre- 
cinct, or election district, or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be 
filled" before the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
five, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota, or any part thereof, imder 
this call, which may be unfilled on said fifteenth day of February, eighteen 
hundred and sixty-five. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal 
of the United States to be aflixed. 

Done in the City of Washington, this nineteenth day of December, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and 
[l. s.] of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty- 
ninth. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
By the President. 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 

By order of the Secretary of War. 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 

Assistant Arljutant-General. 



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THE LAW UNDER WHICH THE PRESIDENT'S 
PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED. 



AN ACT 

FURTHER TO KEGCLATE AND PROVIDE FOR THE EXROI.LINt! AND CALLING OUT 
THE NATIONAL FORCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 

The President of the United States may, at his discretion, at any time 
hereafter, call for any number of men as volunteers for tlie respective 
terms of one, two and Uiroo years, for military service, and any such vol- 
unteer, or, in case of a draft, as hereinafter provided, any substitute shall 
be credited to the town, township, ward, or city precinct, or election dis- 
trict of a county, toward the quota of which he may have volunteered or 
cnj^aged as a substitute, and every volunteer who is engaged and mustered 
into the service for a term of one year, unless sooner discharged, shall re- 
ceive and be paid by the United States a bounty of one hundred dollars 
($100) ; and if for a term of two years, unless sooner discharged, a bounty 
of two hundred dollars ($200) ; and if for a term of three years, unless 
sooner discharged, a bounty of three hundred dollars ($,100) ; one-lhird of 
which bounty sliall bi; paid to the soldier at tlie lime of liis being mustered 
into the service, one-lhird at the exi)iration of one-half of his term of ser- 
vice, and oue-third at the expiration of his term of service ; and in case 
of his death while in the service, the residue of his bounty unpaid shall be 
paid to his ^ridow, if he shall have left a widow ; if not, to his children ; or, 
if there be none, to his mother, in case she be a widow. 

In case the quota or any part thereof of any town, township, ward of a 
city, precinct or election district, or of any county not so sub-divided, shall 
not be filled within the space of tifty days after such call, then the Presi- 
dent shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or any 
part thereof which may be unfilled, and in case of any such draft no pay- 
ment of money shall be accepted or received by the Government as com- 



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mutation to release any enrolled or drafted man from personal obligation 
to perform military service. 

It sliall be hi-,vfid for the executive of any of the States to send recruit- 
ing agents into any of the States declared to be in rebellion, except the 
States of Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, and to recruit volunteers 
imder any call under the provisions of this Act, who shall be credited to 
the State and the respective sub-division thereof which may procure tlio 
enlistment. 

Drafted men, substitutes and volunteers, when mustered in, shall be or- 
ganized in or assigned to regiments, batteries or other organizations of 
their own States, and as far as practicable shall, when assigned, be per- 
mitted to select their own regiments, batteries or other organizations from 
among those of their respective States which at the time of their assign- 
ment may not be iilled to their maximum number. 

The twentieth section of the act entitled "An Act to amend an act for 
enrolling and calling out the national forces," approved February 24, 1864, 
shall be considered to mean that the Secretary of "War shall discharge mi- 
nors under the age of eighteen years, under the circumstances and the 
conditions prescribed in said section ; and hereafter, if any officer of the 
United States shall enlist, or muster into the military service, any person 
under the age of sixteen years, with or without the consent of his parents 
or guardian, such person so enlisted or recruited shall be immediately and 
imconditionally discharged upon the repayment of all the bounty received ; 
and such recruiting or mustering officer, who knowingly enlists a person 
under sixteen years of age, shall be dismissed the service, with the for- 
feiture of all pay and allowances, and shall be subject to such further pun- 
ishment as a court martial may decide. 

Section three of an act entitled " An Act to amend an act entitled an act 
for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,'' 
approved February 25, 18G4, be and the same is hereby amended, so as to 
authorize and direct district provost-marshals, under the direction of the 
Provost-Jtarshal General, to make a draft for one hundred per centum, in 
addition to tlie number required to fill the quota of any district, as provided 
by said section. 



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That instead of traveling pay, all drafted persons reporting at the place 
of rendezvous shall be allowed transportation from their place of residence, 
and persons discharged at the place of rendezvous shall be allowed ti'ans- 
portation to their places of residence. 

All persons in the naval service of the United States who have entered 
said service during the present rebellion, who have not been credited to the 
quota of any town, district, ward or State, by reason of their being in said 
service, and not enrolled prior to February 24, 18G4, shall, on satisfactory 
proof of their residence, made to the Secretary of War, be enrolled and 
credited to the quotas of the town, ward, district, or State, in which they 
respectively reside. 

If any person, duly drafted, shall be absent from home in the prosecution 
of his usual business, the Provost-Marshal of the district shall cause him to 
be duly notified as soon as may be, and he shall not be deemed a deserter, 
nor liable as such until notice has been given to him and reasonable time 
allowed for him to retiu'n and report to the Provost-Marshal of his district, 
but such absence shall not otherwise affect his liability under this act. 

Nothing contained in this act is to be construed to alter or in any way 
affect the law relative to those conscientiously opposed to bearing arras, or 
to affect the rights of persons to procure substitutes. 



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LETTER FROM THE PROVOST-MARSHAL TxENERAL 

TO A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, SOUTHERN DIVISION OF 
NEW YORK, IN RELATION TO THE JANUARY QUOTA ASSIGNED 
THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



War Department, 
Protost-Maeshal General's Bureau 
Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1865 



•i 



Beigadier-General E. W. Hinks, 

Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, 

New York City : 
General— 

In the account of troops called for and furnished, kept in this office, it is 
shown that various States and districts had, on calls prior to that of July 
last, an excess to their credit, resulting mainly from the long terms of 
service for which they put in men. Under the call of July IS, 1864, men 
were permitted by law to enlist for one, two or three years, and the excess 
above alluded to was in some places increased under that call, and in other 
places an excess was created on account of both the number of men and 
the length of the period for which they were accepted. 

The acts of Congress and the pledge of the Government require that all 
the above excess should be duly considered in distributing the quotas imder 
the call of December 19. 

Whenever the quotas assigned under the call of July 19 were not filled by 
volunteers enlisted, or credits allowed according to acts of Congress, drafts 
have been made and the requisite number obtained, so that, under the call of 
July 18, there is no considerable deficiency in any of the States or district in 
the quotas assigned. But as a large proportion of these quotas was filled 
by paper credits, there was a deficiency of men under that call. The Presi- 
dent's proclamation of December 19 announces that that call is made to 
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supply this doficiency. The quotas under the call of July 18, having been 
filled by men and credits, as authorized by law, the call of December 19, 
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men had to be distributed the same 
as it would have been if there had been no deficiency in men. 

Under the call of December 19, it is required- 
First. That three hundred thousand (300,000) men (and not credits alone) 
shall be obtained. 

The acts of Congress require that the distribution shall be made in pro- 
portion to the number of men liable to duty in the different districts, and 
that due consideration shall be given to every locality for any excess it may 
have on former calls. 

To carry out the foregoing conditions, the total excess in the United 
States was added, in gross, to the call, and the sum distributed among the 
districts in proportion to their enrollment ; this, giving the gross quota of 
each district, the actual excess belonging to each district was then deducted 
from this gross quota, and the remainder gives the net quota of the locality 
under the call of December 19. The sum of the net quotas makes up the 
three hundred thousand (300,000) men required. 

A formula, to make the above distribution correctly and to make it bear 
with the least possible hardship, has been communicated to the Provost- 
Marshals. As it is not possible to compute the quotas without full informa- 
tion from all the States and districts, it is plain that the figuring of persons 
who have no other information than what pertains to their respective 
localities can lead it to no correct results. With the foregoing principles 
in view, on the 24th of December, the quotas under the call of December 
19 were computed upon the best information at hand, regarding the en- 
rollment up to November 30, and reports as far as received, of troops fur- 
nished up to December 19. 

It was known, at the time of computing these quotas, that vigorous 
efforts had been going on during the month of December to revise the en- 
rollment, and that the result of these efforts, and complete reports of troops 
raised during the month of December,* could not be received until after the 
1st of January. This date was looked forward to as likely to furnish more 
correct data, and also as the time to rectify those errors and omissions 



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which it is impossible to discover until a call is actually made. The ap- 
proximate quota of the State of New York, prepared from data on the 30th 
of November, was forty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-one (46,821). 
During the month of December, vigorous efforts were made, as before 
stated, to revise the enrollment, and material reductions in it were made 
in various States and districts. Accui'ate calculations made upon the en- 
rollment, as corrected up to December 31, and complete data as to credits 
due up to that date, show the true quota of that State to have been, on the 
1st inst., sixty-one thousand and seventy-six (61,076). 

In reference to the City of New York, the number of men to be raised 
was fixed at the low figure of four thousand four hundred and thirty-three 
. (4,433) in the first assignment from two peculiar causes. One related to 
the amount of credit to which that place was entitled on account of credits 
for men enlisted in the navy prior to February 24, 1864. It was reported to 
me by the Chairman of the Volimteer Committee of the New York Board of 
Supervisors, in letter dated December 20, 1S64, that an agreement had been 
made between himself and General Hays, the then Acting Assistant Provost- 
Marshal General, "that the two and three years naval men should be ap- 
portioned to " the sub-districts of the County of New York, and reports 
were made to this oflSce in accordance therewith ; by which, of the naval 
credits allowed by the commission appointed for that purpose (and which 
commission considered only the number of men and not their periods 
of service), to the first ten districts in New York, composed of one, two 
and three years men, aU the two and three years men were put to the 
credit of the City of New York, and such naval credits as belonging to 
Brooklyn and Tarrytown were reported as one year men, thus giving to 
each of the districts of New York City, and taking from the districts of 
Brooklyn and Tarrytown about two or three times as much credit on tliis 
account as was right and just. The unfairness and injustice of this distri- 
bution escaped notice in the hurry of preparing the approximate quotas 
between the 20th and 24th of December, but was subsequently discovered 
and corrected, the number of naval men assigned by the commission to 
the difl'erent districts not being disturbed. 

Second. It was reported to me that the revision of the enroUraent in New 
York City, which it was supposed would be completed before the new as- 
signment of quotas was to be made, would result in a reduction of the list 



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of twenty-five per cent., and the approximate quotas of December 24 were 
consequently calculated on the assumption that there could be a reduction 
of twenty per cent. When the actual condition of the enrollment was 
officially reported, after the 1st of January, it was found that it had not 
progressed so far as to prove that any material reduction had taken place, 
and the corrected quotas were assigned on the true enrollment, as reported 
by the Provost-Marshals, and as was done elsewhere. The fact that a con- 
siderable reduction had talien place in the enrollment of other States, and 
also in other districts of the State of New York, contributed to increase the 
quota of New York City. These causes created the difference in the quotas 
assigned on the 24th of December and the 24th of January. The last quotas 
of the districts in New York City were prepared in the same manner as the 
quotas of all other districts in the United States, and all the credits due to 
them have been considered. 

Complaint has been made that a hardship is imposed on New York by in- 
creasing her quota, even if correctly done, at so late a day that she cannot 
raise it by volunteers before the time fixed for the draft. There seems to 
be nothing to show that the time of assignment would have made any ma- 
terial difference to the City ; between the announcement of the quota of 
four thousand foiu- hundred and thirty-three (4,433) and that of twenty-one 
thousand and nineteen (21,019), to wit, 24th of December and 24th of Jan- 
uary, the City raised but few volunteers on the smaller quota, and there 
was nothing to indicate that she would, before the time fixed for draft, 
have filled either the larger or smaller of the two quotas. 

In connection Avith the complaint made by New York City, it is proper to 
state that under the call of July 18, 1864, her quota was twenty-three thou- 
sand one hundred and forty (23,140). On that call the City, by the largest 
estimate that can be made, enlisted but five thousand four hundred and 
sixty-one (5,4G1) men. She secured credit for nineteen thousand six hun- 
dred and ten (19,610) seamen, said to have been enlisted between April, 
1861, and February 24, 1864, who were not embraced in the enrollment on 
which her quota was based. For these she had to pay no bounties, and 
seems to have been at no further expense than that incurred in collecting 
and recording the names of the men, and having the sheets containing 
them bound in a ponderous volume. Of the five thousand foui- hundred 
and sixty-two (5,462), stated above as enlisted to the credit of New York 



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City, since July last, many were fraudulently enlisted and counted several 
times over, and some of them are still in the City of New York, repeating 
their enlistments to fill the present quota. 

The conduct of the parties implicated in these frauds is now undergoing 
oflScial scrutiny. In the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the 
County of New York, as given in the New York papers of the 28th inst., a 
report by a Committee, consisting of Mr. Orison Blunt, appears, which pm*- 
ports to give an account of a visit made by him to my office. The report 
is as follows : 

(Extract.) 

REPORT, 

In accordance with the instructions of your Honorable Body, as per res- 
olution adopted at the meeting held on the evening of the 24th inst., the 
Chairman of yom* Committee at midnight proceeded to Washington. Im- 
mediately upon his arrival, he had an interview with Provost-Marshal Gen- 
eral Fry, and endeavored to obtain an explanation (in accordance with the 
instructions of the Board) of the means by which the quota of this County 
had been raised from four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), 
as announced by him to Brigadier-General Hays on the 23d ult., to the 
enormous number of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019). 

The Chairman of your Committee was informed that this increase in the 
quota was attributable : 

First. To the re-distribution of the naval credits claimed by us and al- 
lowed. 

Second. To reductions in the enrollment of the country districts of this 
and other States, which, by materially reducing their proportion of the 
men to be raised, renders ours comparatively larger. 

Third. By the report to the War Department, between the 23d and 31st of 
December, of men raised previous to the 23d of December, who were not 
considered in the first announcement. In some States the Chairman of 
your Committee was assured that the number thus reported was very large. 

These were the only explanations which the Chairman of your Committee 
could obtain of the astounding increase of our quota. 



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Voluminoas statistics were pi-eseuted to liim, but nothing showing the 
precise method in which the quota of this County was arrived at. Full ex- 
planations were promised througli Brigadier-General Hays, but such ex- 
planations have not yet been received. 

********** 

Had your Committee, as desired by them, been authorized by the War 
Department two months earlier than they were, to undertake the correc- 
tion of the enrollment, the work would have been finished before the pre- 
sent quotas were assigned, and the quota of this County would have been 
reduced by at least fifteen thousand (15,000) men." 

This report, is materially incorrect. Mr. Blunt not only "endeavored to 
obtain," but he did obtain a full explanation " of the means by which the 
quota of this County had been raised from four thousand four hundi'ed and 
thirty-three (4,433) to the enormous number of twent3'-one tliousand and 
nineteen (21,019).'' 

He not only acknowledged that the explanation was full, but stated in 
terms that he understood it perfectly, that it was right, and that he would 
80 inform the people of New York. 

He was "shown the precise method in which the quota of the County 
was arrived at,"' and expressed himself satisfied with both the method and 
calculation. He is not correct in stating that "full explanations were 
promised through Brigadier-General Hays, but'feuch explanations liave not 
yetteeen received." No other explanation was promised through General 
Hays than that contained in a letter from me to that oflicer, dated January 
24, 1865, which appears in Mr. Blunt's report, and which I read to him when 
he was in my office on the 2Gtli iust. 

The incorrectness of Mr. Blunt's statement, in regard to revising the en- 
rollment, is shown by the fact that Mr. Blunt's letter asking authority to 
revise the enrollment, addressed to General Hays, was dated in New York, 
November 24, 1864. It was presented to me by General Hays in person on 
Sunday, the 27th of November, and was answered by me on Monday, the 
28th of November, agreeing to tlie proposition with some modifications, 
which were accepted and created no delay. The injustice of the statement 
will be recognized when it is remembered that for more than a year cor- 
rections of the eni-ollment in New York City have been continually invited. 



167 



A special appeal for this coiTection was made by circular from my office, 
dated June 25, 1864, and repeated November 15, 1SG4. Copy lierewith. 
During tliis time additions to and deductions from the enrollment-lists in 
New York City were continually being made by officers of this bureau. 
This appeal to the people, represented by the committee to aid in these 
corrections, received no attention from the committee until the 24th of No- 
vember, showing that they consumed five months in making a proposition 
which the department took but one day to adopt ; and, furthermore, the 
committee and the people were at liberty, at any time, without special au- 
thority from this department, to correct their enrollments, and in many 
States this privilege has been fully and advantageously exercised. 

Mr. Blunt is doubtless aware that the increase of the quota of New York 
City results in a considerable degree from his action in claiming an undue 
proportion of the amount of service due on account of naval credits. His 
report is calculated not only to do injustice to this department, but it has 
misled the people of New York who have confided in him to aid in raising 
soldiers to strengthen the Army and Navy. The principles pointed out in 
the letter show the incorrectness of various figures and statements made 
by Mr. Blunt before the Board of Supervisors. 

Without disturbing the manner of determining and distributing the quo- 
tas of the districts in the State of New York, the President has ordered 
that twenty-five per centum of the quota of each district in the State be 
set aside until fiu-ther orders. 

I am, General, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

J. B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 



War Department, ) 

Provost-Marsual General's Office, J- 

Washington, 1>. C, November 15, 18G4. j 

(Circular No. 39.) 

Attention is again called to the necessity of correcting the enrollment- 
lists in every district and sub-district. While the Board is responsible, as a 
body, for the enrollment, the Commissioner of the Board wiU be required 



168 



to give Ms particular attention to the correction, revision and preservation 

of the lists, and to the preparation of all reports and returns iu regard to 
them ; and he is hereby especially directed to see that monthly reports of 
the corrections made in the enrollment for the preceding month are 
promptly forwarded to this office on or before the third day of every month. 

Circular No. 24, from this office, dated June 25, 18G4, is reproduced and 
revised for the guidance of all concerned. It is as follows :— 

The attention of Boards of Enrollment is called to section six of the Act 
amendatory of the Enrollment Act, which is in the following words, viz. : 

• Section 6. And be it further enacted, that Boards of Enrollment shall 
enroll all persons liable to draft under the provisions of this act, and the act 
to which this is an amendment, whose names may have been omitted by 
the proper enrolling offlcei's ; all persons who shall arrive at the age of 
twenty years before the draft ; all aliens who shall declare their intention 
to become citizens; all persons discharged from the military or naval 
service of the United States, who have not been in such service two years 
during the war, and all persons who have been exempted under the pro- 
visions of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, but 
who are not exempted by the provisions of this act ; and said Boards of En- 
rollment shall release and discharge from draft all persons who, between 
the time of the enrollment and the draft, shall have arrived at the age of 
forty-five years, and shall strike the names of such persons from the en- 
rollment. 

Attention is also called to paragraphs 55, 56, 57, 58, 69, GO, Gl and 62, Ke- 
vised Regulations for the Bureau of the Provost-Marshal General. 

It is to be borne in mind by the Boards that their duties, in regard to the 
correction of the enrollment, do not cease with its revision as recently 
completed or now in progress. On the contrary, the revision and correc- 
tion of these lists is a continuous duty, to which the labors of all Boards 
must be directed. The names of all persons liable to military duty taking 
up their residence in a sub-district, as well as all iu the sub-districts who 
from time to time become liable, shall be added to the eurollment-lists ; and 
the names of persons who enlist into the military or naval service, or re- 
move permanently from a district, or whose liability terminates while in it, 



169 



will be stricken off; and in case of feraoval, whenever it is practicable, the 
Board of Enrollment of the district to which he removes will be notified, 
and he will be enrolled by that Board. 

The Board of Enrollment shall have copies of the enrollment-lists open 
to the examination of the public at all proper times, and shall give public 
notice that any person may appear before the Board and have any name 
striclten off the list, if he can show, to the satisfaction of the Board, that the 
person named is not properly enrolled, on account of— 

1. Alienage. 

2. Non-residence. 

3. Over age. 

4. Permanent physical disability, of such a degree as to render the person 
not a proper subject for enrollment under the law and regulations. 

5. Having served in the military or naval service two years during the 
present war, and been honorably discharged. 

Civil officers, clergymen, and all other prominent citizens are invited to 
appear at all times before the Board, to point out errors in the lists, and 
to give such information in their possession as may aid in the correction 
and revision thereof. 

To the duty of hearing and acting upon claims for exemption, Boards of 
Enrollment are enjoined to devote all the time that can be spared from 
other less pressing duties. They will report to the Provost-Marshal Gen- 
eral, for the purpose of correcting lists on file, at the end of each month, 
upon sheets of consolidated enrollment-lists, the names and residences of 
all persons who have been added to or stricken from the rolls duinng the 
month. They will send with each report a recapitulation, showing, in 
concise form, the number enrolled at the time of forwarding the last list, 
the number stricken from the enrollment, and the number added to it since 
that time, and its actual condition at date of report. 

JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 



APPENDIX H. 



173 



COPY OF LETTER TO THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL 

IN RELATION TO NAVAL CREDITS. 



Brigadier-Gkneral J. B. Fry, 

Provost-Marshal General : 
Sir— 
I have the honor to transmit you, by the hand of Mr. B. Eastman, Special 
Messenger, several documents, of which the following is a memorandum : 

First.— Copy of telegram to yourself, of date December 20th. 
.Second.- Copy of letter to General Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Mar- 
shal General, of date December 13, relative to credits due on 31st October. 

Third.— Copy of letter to General Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal 
General, of date December 14, relative to claim for credit for marines 
enlisted from April 21, 1861, to April 4, 1864. 

Fourth.— Copy of Size Roll (Muster and Descriptive), in bound volume, 
of marines enlisted as stated above. 

I would respectfully state that, after sending to you to-day the telegram 
relative to the naval credits, I had a conference with Brigadier-General 
Hays, and it was agreed that the two and three years naval men should be 
apportioned to. the several sub-districts of this County in the following 
proportion : 



Congressional District. 



Fourth . 
Fifth . . . 
Sixth. . . 
Seventh 
Eighth . 
Ninth . . 



Three Years 
Naval 
Credit. 



2,000 
2,000 
1,353 
2,000 
2,000 
1,853 

11,206 



Two Years 
Naval 
Credit. 



107 
103 
103 
103 
103 
103 

622 



TotaL 



2,107 
2,103 
1,456 
2,103 
2,103 
1,956 

11,828 



174 



Of conrse. all the other credits due are already apportioned. 

I might add that I am now preparing for you copies of the muster and 
descriptive lists, showing the years of credit of each of the men credited 
for enlisting in the Navy. As they make four ponderous volumes nearly 
as large as the one containing the ships' rolls, heretofore transmitted to 
you, you will understand at once that it wiU take some time to complete 
the evidence. 

I would respectfully suggest that it would be a matter of great conve- 
nience in making all credits and quotas for this County, if they could be 
summed up and given in gross, leaving it to the Acting Assistant Provost- 
Marshal General to divide credits and quotas among the sub-districts. 

As the County Committee, of which I am the Chairman, is working for 
the interests of the whole Countj', and no particular district, and as the 
money expended by us in raising men, &c., is equally borne by all portions 
of the City, this course would enable us, by consultation with General Hays, 
who is always accessible, to secure that the sub-districts are all fairly 
dealt by. 

If this suggestion be adopted, it would save your department much 
trouble and greatly accommodate us. The form would tlien be something 
like this: 

Quotas. Deficiencies. Surplus. 
Fourth to Ninth Districts, inclusive. New 
York County ,. 

I am, sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) OEISON BLUNT, 

Chairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. 



175 



COPT OP A LETTEH TO ACTING ASSISTANT PROVOST-MAESHAL GEN- 
EEAL, SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK, RELATIVE TO ALL 
CREDITS DUE THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK ON THE 31ST OF OC- 

'^OBER. Headquarters ) 

County Committee on Volunteering, > 

- - '13, 1864. J 



Headquarters 

, „mittee on VOLl 

New York, December 13, 

Brigadieb-General Willum Hats, 

Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen. : 
Sir— 
I transmit you herewith a complete statement of all credits allowed on 
the quota of the City and County of New York, under the President's call 
of July 28, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, with statement of 
credits due on 31st of October, 1864, on any future call. 

I desire to call your particular attention to the fact that there have been 
allowed us credits for men enUsted in the Navy from April 15, 1861, to April 
4, 1864, nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven (19,477) men. 
Of these men, there were enlisted 

For one year ''^'^^^ 

For two years ^^^ 

For three years ^^^-'^^ 

19,477 

Of the two and three years men there have been allowed us one year of 
credit. So that there remains in this item yet to be credited six hundred 
and twenty-two (622) years of service for two years men, and twenty-two 
thousand four hundi-ed and twelve (22,412) years of service for three years 
men ; being in all twenty-three thousand and thu-ty-four (23,034) years of 
service due New York Countj- on this account. 

Our total claim for credits due on all accounts up to October 31st is 
twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine (29,829), as per the 
annexed schedule. 

I am, sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

Chairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. 



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SUMMAEY. 

Total number of men of all classes enlisted and credited with 
one year of service : 

For one year 7,899 

For two years 660 

For tliree years 14,588 

For four years 21 

. Total 23,168 

Total number of years of credit due on any future call : 

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Total number of years yet to be allowed 29,899 



I 



APPENDIX I. 



181 



CIRCULAR OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. 



War Department, ) 

Provost-Marshal General's Office, > 

Washiyigton, B. 6'., Nov. 15, 1864. ) 

Brigadier-General William Hays, 

Acting Assistant Provost-ifarslml General, 

New York City, N. Y. : 
General— 
Circular No. 39, in reference to correction of the enrollment, has this day 
been issued. The subject is one which requires the closest attention of the 
officers of this bureau. 

The work must, therefore, be performed mainly by the employees we 
have imder pay, and by securing the assistance and co-operation of the 
people in every sub-district. 

They should understand that it is plainly for the interest of each sub-dis- 
trict to have stricken from the list all names improperly enrolled, because 
an excess of names increases the quota called for from such sub-district ; 
and that it is equally for the interest of each person enrolled in a given 
sub-district to place upon the lists all persons in the sub-district liable to 
military duty, because the greater the nvunber to be drawn from, the less 
the chance that any particular individual wUl be drawn. 

It is the peTsonal interest of every enrolled man that the quota in which 
he is concerned shall not be made too large, and that his own chances for 
draft shall not be unjustly increased ; both these objects will be obtained 
if all parties will aid in striking out the wrong names and putting in the 
right ones. 

Especially is this the interest of those drafted men, who, by putting in 
substiUites themselves liable to draft, have secured exemption which by 



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the terms of the law holds good ouly until the present enrollment is ex- 
hausted in their sub-districts. 

Men who are over forty-five years of age, and in consequence excused by 
law from the performance of duty in the field, owe it to the cause and to 
the country to take a zealous and active part in the correction of the en- 
rollment-lists, a military service of the first importance. The law requires 
that quotas shall be assigned in proportion to the enrollment, and the fair- 
ness and justice of the mode of determining the amount of military ser- 
vice due from each and every section of the country cannot be doubted, if 
the enrollment is made as nearly perfect as it is practicable to make it. 

The amount of seifice due to the nation from every town or county is 
thus laid fairly and plainly before the citizens, and I am sure that a higher 
motive than self-interest will prompt all to do their share in perfecting the 
enrollment, and securing a just and efficient execution of the laws for 
raising troops whenever it becomes necessary to apply them. 

Confer with the State and local authorities, and present the foregoing 
views to them, and secure, if possible, prompt and practical assistance 
from them in perfecting the enrollment-lists. The subject should receive 
the attention of town, precinct and ward meetings and committees. 

I am. General, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) JAMES B. FRY, 

Provost-Marshal General. 
[A true copy.] 
(Signed) H. F. BROvncsoN, A. A. G. 

Orison Blunt, Esq., 

Chairman Volunteer Committee. 



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PROPOSITION OP THE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEEEING 
TO CORRECT THE ENROLLMENT. 

ConNTT Volunteer Committee, ) 
New York, Nov. 24, 1864. j 

BKIQADrER-GENERAX, WILLIAM HaTS, 

Acting Assistant Provost-Marslial General : 
Sir— 

Circular No. 39, from the Provost-Marshal General's office, and the procla- 
mation from the Governor in regard to the enrollment, calls attention to 
the necessity of municipal authorities undertaking the work of correcting 
the enrollment, with a view to having proper quotas assigned under any 
future call of the President for men. 

The County Committee on Volunteering have determined to undertake 
the task, so far as regards the County of New York, knowing from ex- 
perience that such labor in oiu: city would not be otherwise performed. 
Why this is, it is needless now to discuss ; sufficient, that the fact is so. 

The duty, therefore, devolving on the county authorities, and you having 
kindly offered your co-operation, we will at once enter upon this work 
under a systematic plan to be immediately agreed upon. We believe that 
the Provost-Marshal's Department equally Mitli ourselves is anxious that all 
cause for dissatisfaction in regard to our enrollment should be removed, 
and we believe, also, that our taking this matter in hand will allay much of 
the dissatisfaction as regards the enrollment which has hitherto existed. 
In correcting this enrollment it will be oirr desire as well as our effort to 
secure as a result a perfectly fair enrollment of this county, and to this end 
I herewith submit a plan of action for your approval, on which I trust you 
will take speedy action. 

I am, sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

ClMirman. 



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New York Codntt Enrollmknt Bureau. 
Plan for Correction of United States Enrollment in the County of New York. 

I. A complete copy of the enrollment will be obtained from each Provost- 
Marshal on the usual blanks. 

II. These copies shall be arranged by Wards. 

III. The work of correction wiU be done as follows : 

1. lu each Ward, a number of officers shall be appointed equal to 
the present election districts, who shall be sworn to the faithful 
discharge of the duties assigned to them. 

2. These officers shall be selected by the Committee on Volunteering 
or by the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General. 

3. Their duty shall be to take each blank as prepared, visit each 
house which appears upon the rolls, and ascertain— 

A. Whether each person, whose name is recorded, is a resident 
therein. 

B. Whether he is exempt from draft for either of the following 
reasons : 

a. Over forty-five years of age. 
h. Under twenty years of age. 

c. Alienage. 

d. Having furnished a substitute in anticipation of the 
draft. 

e. Having been drafted and furnished a substitute. 

/. Having been drafted and paid commutation. 

g. Having been drafted and received a certificate of per- 
manent pliysical disability. 

h. Being permanently physically disqualified. 

i. Having served two years in the Army or Navy during 
the present war and been honorably discharged. 



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4 mcnevor any of the above exemptions shall appear, or any dis- 

■ crepancy shall he found between the Provost-Marshal's enrollment 

and the facts, that discrepancy shall be noted on the margin of the 

blank under the head of remarks, and no change under any cu- 

cumstances be made in the body of the blanks. 

5 After the blanks shall have gone through the hands of the officers 
'appointed to make the correction, a copy will be made, and the 

originals handed over to the Provost^Marshal of the district. 

6 The Provost-Marshals shall at once examine the corrected rolls, 
■ and strike from the rolls on file in their office,.and also on the rolls 

furnished them, such names as it shall appear by the corrected 

returns should be stricken off. 

7 The rolls fumished'proYOst-Marshals will then be returned, and in 

'all cases where exemption is alleged, the Provost-Marshals shall 

not deem the memorandum of the collector sufficient to justify the 

striking of the name from the roll, but due efforts .ill be made to 

procure the necessary affidavits to establish the alleged exemption. 

8. All the expense of this correction, including all clerk hire, will 

be paid by the County. 
9 The Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General will issue an order 
'directing the Assistant Provost-Marshals of cUstricts to furnish aU 
facilities for carrying out this plan. 
By order of 

ORISON BLUNT, 

Cliairman N. T. Co. Vol. Com. 

Per C. COESON, Chief of Enrollment Bureau. 



APPENDIX J. 



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FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE ARMY. 



Copy of an Affidavit sent to the Acting Assistant Provost-Marslial General of 
the Southern Division of New York, hy the County Committee on Volunteer- 
ing, on the IQth of November, 1864. 

State of New York, | gg . 

CiTT AND County of New York, j 

WaUace Dunbar, being duly sworn, says he resides at No. 145 Wayne 
Street, Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey ; that on the 26th day of 
October, 18G4, he went to a pubUc house kept by Alexander Simpson, at 
No. 61 Carmine Street, in the City of New York ; that said Simpson pro- 
posed that this deponent should enUst in the army, but this deponent said 
he had been examined by a surgeon and rejected for the reason that he 
was near-sighted and could not see without glasses any distance ; that lie 
had worn glasses for fifteen years ; that he could not see a good sized Roman 
letter, half-inch in size, to tell what it was at a distance of more than fifteen 
inches ; that he met a man who said he was a discharged soldier who said 
he could get him, this deponent, passed ; that said discharged soldier and 
Simpson took this deponent to a place in SLxth Avenue, near Thu-teenth 
Street, to enlist, and this deponent has since been informed that it was the 
office of Captain Coster, Pi-ovost-Marshal, Sixth District ; that he took off 
his glasses before he entered the office of the Provost-Marshal ; that the 
Burgeon did not reqmre him to take off his clothing ; that the Siu-geon held 
up a common playing card at a distance of abont ten feet, and this depo- 
nent coulcl not tell the number of spots on the card, and was rejected by the 
Surgeon ; that the said Simpson took this deponent to a substitute broker's 
office in Fulton SU-eet, near Gold Street ; that after being there a short 
time, Simpson wanted this deponent to go as a substitute. This deponent 
replied he was not eligible, for he was not born in this country. This de- 
ponent returned to the public house kept by Simpson, where he again met 
the discharged soldier, who blamed this deponent for not gomg as a sub- 



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ptitnte, and said the swearing amounted to notliing, as it was only holding 
up a hand or kissing a booI\. That the discharged soldier told this depo- 
nent that the reason why he was not accepted by the Surgeon at the office 
of Provost-Marshal Coster, was that he (the discharged soldier) did not 
soap the doctor, which this deponent afterwards understood as paying the 
doctor some money. That the discharged soldier and Simpson took this 
deponent to a place in White Street, that he believed to be a broker's of- 
fice ; that some one in this office held up a card, and this deponent could 
not tell the spots, or what card was held up ; that this deponent then came, 
in company with Simpson and the discharged soldier, to the office of the 
County Volunteer Committee, corner Broadway and Chambers Street, and 
was shown into the room of the Surgeon, where this deponent took off his 
clothing ; that he did not have on his glasses, and did not put them on 
while he was in the office of the County Volunteer Committee. 

Tills deponent was examined by the Surgeon ; a common playing card 
was held up at a distance of about six feet, which he could not see to tell 
what the card was ; that the discharged soldier had told this deponent that 
either clubs or spades would be held up ; and this deponent when asked 
what was held up by the surgeon, he could not tell, but guessed first either 
clubs or spades, and the surgeon still held up the card, when this deponent 
named the other denominations. This deponent was satisfied that the card 
held up was either clubs or spades. This deponent was passed by the Sur- 
geon, and was sworn into the service of the United States Army, and as- 
signed to the 127th New York Volunteers, and received the County Bounty 
of three hundred dollars ($300). 

That Simpson received the hand-money, fifty dollars ($50), from the 
County Volunteer Committee for presenting him as a recruit. The dis- 
charged soldier was with Simpson at the time, and before this deponent re- 
ceived the County Bounty, three hundred dollars ($300V The discharged 
soldier said to liim that this deponent agreed to pay to the discharged sol- 
dier and Simpson one hundred dollars ($100) each, which this deponent 
has no recollection of having agreed to. 

The discliarged soldier said he had to give the Surgeon one hundred dol- 
lars (SlOO) for passing and accepting this deponent as a recruit ; this depo- 
nent then gave two hundred and seventy dollars ($270) to Simpson to give 



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the Surgeon one hundred dollars (SlOO), and to divide one hundred dollars 
($100) between themselves, and the balance, seventy dollars (S70), to give 
to his sister, which was not done ; but this deponent has since been in- 
formed that his brother-in-law, A. H. Parmly, called on Simpson and re- 
ceived seventy dollars (S70) from Simpson. This deponent believes that 
the discharged soldier and Simpson defrauded him out of two hundred 
dollars ($200), which he had received from the County Volunteer Commit- 
tee by reason of his enlisting. 

This deponent is unable to do military duty on account of his being near- 
sighted, and will only be an expense to the United States Government if he 
remains in the service. t 

This deponent wishes the said Simpson to refund the two hundred dol- 
lars (S200) paid to him by this deponent, so that this deponent can refund 
to the County Volunteer Committee, if he can seciu-e his discharge from 
the United States service. 

(Signed) WALLACE DUNBAB. 

Sworn to before me, i 
November 9, 186Jt. [ 

A. J. Cadt, 

Commissioner of Deeds. 



FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE NAVY. 

Copy of Letter sent to Rear Admiral Paulding, in charge of Brooklyn Navy 
Yard, December 29, 1864, by the County Committee on Volunteering. 



Headquarters, 
County Volunteer Committee, 
New York, Dec. 29, 1864 
Bear Admiral Hiram Paulding : 

Dear Sir— 



•[ 



I respectfully call your attention to the following fact : A man by the 
name of Peter Breene applied at the office to day to ship in the United 
States Navy. 

He was sent with a messenger from this office by Acting-Master Baker, 



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to No. 173 South Street, the Tendczrous in charge of Act. Vol. Lieut. C. F. W. 
Vehm. 

When they arrived at the door of the rendezvous, the messenger was 
told by a man who pretended to keep the door, that the recruit would be 
permittod to enter, but he coukl not. 

The recruit was then passed in, e.tamined, shipped, and taken away from 
the messenger, and credited to some county other than the County of New 
York. 

Upon the retirrn of the messenger, I immediately went down to the ren- 
dezvous, 173 South Street, with Iiim, to investigate the case. I saw Lieut. 
Vehm, and he called in the man at the door and asked him what right he 
had to hold t'^^ r-> — ". ^s he did not recognize him as being connected with 
the ofBce ? 

I also saw one of the firm of Merritt, Davies & Co., who said that their 
firm was employed in the office, but did not receive any pay from the Gov- 
ernment ; and Mr, Davies, of that firm, was recognized by the messenger 
as the man that had refused to admit him into the rendezvous, and had 
taken away the said Peter Breene. 

The messenger informed Mr. Davies, distinctly, that he brought the said 
Peter Breene from my office for the purpose of shipping him for the County 
of New York. 

I asked Lieutenant C. F. W. Vehm if he recognized these men, Merritt, 
Davies & Co., as attached to his office, and he said he did, as he found 
them there when he came. 

I asked him if they received pay from the Government, and he said he 
thought they did not. 

Mr. Merritt, of that firm, said they were not paid by the Government. 

We sent, on one occasion, as many as thirteen men to the different ren- 
dezvous in this County, and we lost them in the same manner. 

I was well satisfied, before making a personal examination, that the 
business at these offices was carried on loosely, and until I made this per- 
sonal examination, I was unable to understand how the men were taken 
away from us. 



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I now make the statement of facts to you in order that you may under- 
stand how the business is conducted at that rendezvous, and I am fully 
satisfied it is carried on in the same manner at the other rendezvous. 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

ORISON BLUNT, 
Chairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. 



FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE MARINE CORPS. 

Extract from Report of the County Committee on Volunteering, submitted to 
the Board of Supervisors October 4, 1864. 

Notwithstanding that at our principal office in the Park we are very strict 

in refusing any facility for the enlisting of any except such as would count 

on the quota of New York, we found that even there advantage was taken 

of us, and men enlisted for other localities. Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, 

Mustering Officer for the Marine Corps, we found engaged in this business, 

using the facilities afiforded him by us for the good of New York for the 

benefit of other places as well. The first instance of the kind which came 

to the knowledge of your Committee was the occasion of the following 

letter : 

County Volunteer Committee, j 
Mw York, July 25, 1864. j 
Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, 

U. S. Marine Corps, 

Recruiting Officer at County Volunteer Rooms : 
Sir— 

It is my duty to inform you that it is against the positive rule of this Com 

mittee to have any one enlisted as a substitute within its jiu-isdiction except 

for a resident of the City and County of New York. Except by you, such a 

thing has never been done in our office, and I therefore deem it essential 

that you should be officially apprised of this rule. 

I am, sir. 

Very respectfully, &c, 

(Signed) ' ORISON BLUNT, 

Chairman County Volunteer Committee. 

13 



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Lieutenant Meeker undertook to argue that it was not so much his busi- 
ness to consult the interests of the County of New York as to consult the 
interests of the Marine Corps, and get for that arm of the service all the 
men he could, without reference to our wishes in the matter. As your 
Committee could not so understand it, but as they did not desire to injure 
the cause of enlistments for the Marine Corps, the following notice was at 
once sent to Admiral Paulding : 

County Volunteer Rooms, } 
Mew York, July 26, 1864. J 
Admiral H. Paulding, 

Brooklyn Mavy Yard: 

Sir— 

Will you please detail a Mustering Officer at this office for the Marine 
Corps. 

Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, who has been acting in that capacity at this 
office, has assumed the right to muster in substitutes for persons residing 
outside the County of New York, and as such action is in direct contraven- 
tion of the rules of this Committee, as being most unjust to the County of 
New York, we have been obliged to discontinue his relations with us. As, 
however, we are desirous of aiding the Marine Corps, as well as other 
branches of the service, I request that some other officer be detailed here 
to muster in marines, otherwise the Marine Office at our rooms will be 
closed. 

I am, sir, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

Chairman County Volunteer Committee. 



Navy Yard, } 



To which the following reply was received : 

New rorfc,' July 28, 1864. 
Sir^ 
In reply to your communication of the 26th inst., requesting that another 
officer should be detailed in place of Lieutenant Meeker at the Marine ren- 
dezvous, I have to say that inasmuch as he has acted in entire accordance 
with my views, and in compliance with the regulations of the service, I 
cannot act upon your request. Were we to refuse all recruits except those 



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who coiild be accredited to the quota of New York Coixnty, the service 
would suffer materially. If it be contrary to your views that he should 
continue to act as heretofore, I will have that rendezvous for marines 
closed. 

Respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

H. PAULDING, 

Commandant. 
Orison Blunt, 

Chairman County Bounty Committee, New York. 

Upon this your Committee determined to close that office, believing it 
their duty to protect the County, even if the Marine Corps suffered. The 
following notice was therefore sent to Admiral Paulding : 

Headquarters County Volunteer Committee, ) 

City Hall Park, V 

Broadway, corner CHAiiBERS Street. ) 

Admiral H. Paulding, 

Commandant Navy Yard, 

Brooklyn : 
Sir— 

Your letter of the 28th inst. is received. Inasmuch as the County Volun- 
teer Committee have not the room to spare in their building for the purpose 
of raising recruits for other Counties or States, though we have willingly 
inconvenienced ourselves to afford every facility for the filling of our quota, 
I would respectfully suggest that we have this morning placed the rooms 
hitherto occupied for the Marine rendezvous to piu'poses exclusively con- 
nected with the filling of the quota of New York County. 

While we are willing to do our utmost to recruit for every part of the 

service, and have and will afford every facility to that end, we do not deem 

it oiu" duty to give the opportunity to enlist men, properly belonging to the 

City and County of New York, for the benefit and credit of other counties 

or States. 

I am, sir. 

Very respectfully, itc, 
(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

Chairman Volunteer Committee. 



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Subsequent events proved that your Committee acted wisely in closing 
the office of Lieutenant Meeker, as the affidavit accompanying the follow- 
ing letter will demonstrate : 

Headquarters Countt Volunteer Committee, ^ 

City Hall Park, f 

Broadway, corner Chambers Street, ^ 

New York, August 20, 1864. ) 

Colonel Reynolds, 



Sir— 



Marine Corps Barracks, 

Brooklyn Navy Yard 



Accompanying please find affidavit of John B. Eandolph, marine, which 
would seem to demand attention. 

Circumstances similar to those narrated in this affidavit led to the closing 
of the Marine rendezvous at this, office when in charge of Lieutenant 
Meeker. 

It is an outrage that men should be so deceived, and it is due alike to the 
party making the affidavit, to Lieutenant Meeker and the Government, 
that the affair should be investigated. 

I respectfully ask that you will institute inquiry into the facts contained 
in this affidavit, and that you will direct Lieutenant Meeker to report to 
me, and explain his conduct in the matter. 

I am, sir, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

(Signed) ORISON BLUNT, 

Chairman County Volunteer Committee. 

City and County ofNeio Yo7'k, ss : 

John B. Randolph, being by me duly sworn, doth depose and say, that on 
the 20th day of July, 18G4, he went to No. Ill Nassau Street, in said city, 
for the purpose of inquiring about enlisting in the United States Marine 
Corps ; he there saw a man in charge, and this deponent told him that he 
wanted to enlist in the Marine Corps ; he was told that the office was not 
open at that time, but if he would wait for half an hour the office would 
then be open. The deponent waited. In the mean time went out, and in 



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the course of twenty or twenty-five minutes returned, saying that if he, 
deponent, would go with him to the rooms of the County Volunteer Com- 
mittee, that he could there enlist. Deponent went with him to the above 
place, and was duly examined by the siu-geon there, and signed the papers 
that Lieutenant Meelier requested him to do, with the understanding that 
he was to go as a volunteer ; that Lieutenant Meeker received from the man 
that went with deponent to enlist the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) ; 
that Lieutenant Meelier put the said three hundred dollars ($300) in an en- 
velope and addressed it to this deponent, and gave it to the Orderly, and 
this deponent went witli the Orderly to the Marine Barraclis at Brooklyn, 
New York, and that the Orderly delivered the said envelope to the Colonel 
commanding at that place and that the said Colonel placed the amount to 
the credit of this deponent, and from time to time gave to this deponent 
what sums he wished. 

This deponent further says : That on the 19th of August, 1864, at about 
half-past one in the afternoon, a man by the name of William Hay ward 
came to the Barracks, at Brooklyn, and while there came into the room 
where tliis deponent was, and in the course of conversation this deponent 
made the remark that lie had been enlisted one month from the 20th of 
August, 1864 ; that then this man Hayward put his hand into his pocket and 
pulled out a paper, and said that he, meaning this deponent, had enlisted 
on the 18th of July, and not on the 20th, as this deponent said, and this de- 
ponent saw indorsed on the back of said paper these words : " John B. 
Kandolph, substitute for John Grant," and this deponent asked, *' am I a 
substitute ?" and the answer was, " Oh, no." He then placed the paper in 
his pocket, and immediately left the barracks ; that the deponent went to 
the Colonel and told him what had taken place, and he, the Colonel, told 
the deponent to go and report the same to Mr. Orison Blunt, Chairman 
Coixnty Volunteer Committee. 

(Signed) J. B. EANDOLPH. 

Sworn to before me, this 20th ) 
day of August, 1S64. j 

(Signed) A. S. Cadt. 

Commissioner of Deeds. 

To tliis the following answer was received : 



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Marine Barracks, ) 

Brooklyn, August 28, 18G4. j 
Sir— 

In answer to your note of the 26th instant, I have to state that John B. 
Randolph is noted on the muster of Lieutenant Meeker as tlie representa- 
tive of John Grant, Nineteenth Congressional District, Middletown, Dela- 
ware County, New York. 

Will you please to refer to your record, and ascertain whether Robert 
Jarvis has been returned by you as a volunteer ? Sergeant Ramsay, who 
was at your ofHce a few days since, informs me you have him so returned ; 
on Lieutenant Meeker's roll he is noted as a substitute, which, from the 
amount of money deposited, four hundred dollars ($400), would seem to be 
the case. I cannot understand how he can appear on your rolls as a vol- 
unteer, at four hundred dollars ($400), when you have at no time to my 
knowledge exceeded the sum of three hundred dollars ($300). It bears the 
appearance, as it now stands, of having received your bounty of three hun- 
dred dollars ($300), and afterwards altered to a substitute without yoiu' 
knowledge. Jarvis enlisted July 20, 18G4. 

Corporal Randolph certainly should be protected, and the case of Jarvis 
put right. If the latter is a volunteer, he is entitled to three himdi'ed dol- 
lars ($300) Government bounty. 

I am, sir, very respectfully. 

Yours, &c., 
(Signed) JOHN G. REYNOLDS, 

Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Post. 
Orison Blunt, Esq., 

Chairman, &c., New York. 

Though investigation proved that so far as the case of Robert Jarvis 
(alluded to in Colonel Reynold's letter) was concerned, there was no de- 
ception, yet the case of Randolph was so glaring as to prove full justifica- 
tion of the Committee's action in regard to Lieutenant Meeker. 



MEN FURNISHED 

AND 

PUBLIC FUNDS EXPENDED 

BY THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK 

FOR THE ^^J^lEi. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

JUNE 30, 1865. 



The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, relative 
to men furnished and public funds expended by the County of New York 
for the war, was received and directed to be printed. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Clerk. 



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REPORT. 



To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : 

The Special Committee on Volunteering would re- 
spectfully 

REPORT : 

That they have in course of preparation their full and 
complete report of operation in filling the quota, under 
the last call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men. 
They are delayed in submitting the same in consequence 
of the incompleteness of the account with the State rela- 
tive to reimbursement for bounties paid for men raised 
under the last call, provided for by the Bounty Law of 
1865. 

In the meantime, however, your Committee have been 
called upon to furnish the United States authorities with 
a full statement of men furnished and moneys paid by the 
City and County of New York during the war. 



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Accordingly, your Committee have had carefully pre- 
pared an elaborate statement, showing the whole business 
of the City and County in recruiting, and in expenses for 
recruiting, and for all other purposes, which, with the 
correspondence on this subject, will be found appended 
hereto. 



This paper it is thought proper to officially lay befor( 
3ur Honorable Body, for your information. 



The figures presented are in detail, and, your Com- 
mittee believe, give the fullest and clearest view of this 
subject which has ever yet been presented. 

The statements will repay attentive perusal. They 
show that the whole number of men enlisted in this City 
and County during the rebellion, credited and not cred- 
ited, was as follows : 

By the City— Prior to August, 1863 63,430 

By the County— After August, 1863 52,952 

Total number of men enlisted 116,382 

Of these the following number were paid Bounty : 

City 9,876 

County 27,883 

Total paid Bounty 37,759 



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The total rmmber of men enlisted represented the fol- 
lowing years of service : 

City 136,630 

County 130,921 

Total years of service 267,551 

The number who received Bounty represented the 
following years of service : 

City 29,522 

County 77,142 

Total years of service of those to whom 

Bounty was paid 106,664 

The total amount of moneys expended foots up as 
follows : 

City $7,412,929 89 

County 10,099,743 30 

Total expenditure $17,512,673 19 

Of the above amount there was expended for Bounties 
and Premiums, and all expenses connected with Bounties 
and Recruiting : 

City $494,648 38 

County 10,099,743 30 

Total $10,594,391 68 



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There was expended for purposes not connected with 
Bounties and Recruiting : 

City $6,918,281 51 

County Nothing. 

Of the amount expended by tlie City, there has been 
reimbursed from the National Treasury, on account of 
equipments furnished City Regiments at the outbreak of 
the rcbelhon $39,458 54 

Reimbursed the County by 
the State, on account of 
expenditures for Bounties 
under t^^e last call $2,140,000 00 

Yet claimed, but not deter- 
mined, about 750,000 00 

Total reimbursed County 2,896,000 00 

Total reimbursed City and County. $2,935,458 54 

Deducting the above from the total expenditures, it 
leaves the following net expenditure : 

City $7,373,471 35 

County 7,203,743 30 

Total ... $14,577,214 65 



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RECAPITULATION, 




Total number of men <54,430 

Number paid Bounty i^Rfi^O 

Total years of service ijo,dou 

Years of service of those to whom] 
Bounties were paid 



29,522 



52,952 
27,833 
130,y21 

77,142 



116,382 

37.759 

267,551 

106,664 



Total amount of money expended 
for all purposes ■■■■■■ 

Expended for Bounties and Pre- 
miums and all expenses con- 
nected therewith 

Expenses for purposes not con- 
nected with Bounties and Pre- 
miums. . - — • 

Eeimbursed from National and 
State Treasuries 

Net expenditure for all purposes 



$7,412,929 891 $10,099,743 30 



494,648 38 



6,918,281 51 

39,458 54 
7,373,471 35 



10,099,743 30 



2,890,000 00 
7,203,743 30 



$17,512,673 19 
10,594,391 C8 

6,918,281 51 

2,935,458 54 
14,577,214 65 



Your Committee would add, that so soon as the claim 
of the County against the State is entirely settled, they 
will present their detailed Report. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 
New York, June 30, 1865. 



ORISON BLUNT, 
ELIJAH F ^^^^' 
WILLIAM 



BLUNT, ) 

F. PURDY, V 
1 M. TWEED,) 



Special Committee 

on 

Volunteering. 



CoENELius Corson, Clerh 



APPENDIX. 



211 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Provost-Marshal General Frij to A. A. Provost-3Iarshal 
General Dodge. 

WAR DEPARTMENT— Pbovost-Marshal General's Bureau, ) 
Washington, D. C, June 14, 1865. j 

Bvt. Lt.-Col. R. J. Dodge, 

A. A. Pro.-Mar. General, 

New York City, New York ; 
Colonel— 

The Provost-Marshal General directs that you ascertain from the most 
reliable sources, and report as soon as practicable, the exact amount (if 
possible), or the average amount of bounty (other than paid by the United 
States), which has been paid for men put into the service in each District 
under your supervision, under each call heretofore made for troops. 

Report upon each call separately, and let the figures be correctly given. 
I am, Colonel, 

Very respectfully. 

Your ob't serv't 

(Signed) GEO. E. SCOTT, 

Mc^or Vet. Ees. Corps. 
[Special attention.'] 



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A. A. Provost-Marshal General Dodge to Supervisor Blunt. 

Office of Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, ) 

Southern Division of New York, '• 

New York, June 16, 18G5. ) 

Official copy respectfully forwarded to 0. Blunt, Esq., with a request that 
such information as can be furnished from the records of his office may be 
transmitted to this, in order to comply with the desire of the Department. 

(Signed) N. PRIME, 

Bvt. Lt.-CoL, U.S.A.,A.A.A. General. 



Supervisor Blunt to A. A. Provost- 3Iarshal General Dodge, 



Headquarters 
County Committee on Volunteering 
New York, June 26th, 1865, 
Bvt. LL-Col. Dodge, 



Sir— 



A. A. P.-M. General, 

Southern Division ofNexD York : 



In answer to your memorandum of June 16th, on communication of June 
14th from the Provost-Marshal General's Department at Washington, ask- 
ing information as to the exact or average amount of Bounty which has 
been paid for men put into the service in each District under your super- 
vision, under each call heretofore made for troops, I have the honor to 
reply. 

The City and County of New York have never paid Bounties by Districts, 
and it is therefore impossible to answer yoiu* inquiry in that shape. 
Bounties always having been paid in gross for the whole City and County, 
the statements which are annexed hereto are made up in that form. 

This statement embraces a full exhibit of all the public moneys dis- 
bursed, both by the City and County on account of the war. 



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It also embraces a full statement of all the men enlisted in this City and 
County, excepting the proportion of naval enlistments, credit for which 
was allowed us December 23, 1864, and taken from us January 24, 1865, 
under the last call, and the services of our militia during the war, for 
which latter credit has never been allowed. 

I have the honor to be. Sir, 

Very respectfully, 

Yourobd't servant, 

ORISON BLUNT, 
Chairman 27. Y. County Committee on Volunteering. 



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CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Statement of number of Men raised, and expenditures for Bounties^ pnor to 
August, 1863; toith amount expended hy the City Authorities for all pur- 
poses connected with the War, from its 'commencement to the close of 
Secruiting. 

Men. Raised Tvitliont Bonnty. 

Army Volunteers prior to July 2, 1862, stated by the Judge-Advocate 
General in report to Governor Seymour, dated May 7, 1863, as follows: 

51 Eegiments of Infantry. 

6 Regiments of cavah'y. 

1 Battalion of Mounted Rifles. 
1 Regiment of Engineers. 

1 Regiment ) 

2 Battalions v of Heavy Artillei'y. 

7 Batteries ) 

1 Regiment of Marine Artillery, 
1 Rocket Battalion. 

Making a total of *53,554 men. 

Men Raised ivith Bonnty. 

After July 2, 1862, and prior to August, 1863 9,876 men. 

Grand total 63,430 men. 

In addition to this, there were enlisted several thousand Naval Recruits, 
who were subsequently credited under the call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 
men. 

* These men were enlisted for various periods, mostly, however, for three 
years, and their terms of service would average about two years. 



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Payment of Bounties. 

1862. 

9,704 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $485,200 00 

51 me-, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid ^^^'^^ °" 

9J55 men, to whom was paid $486,475 00 

Add, expenses of disbursing the above '^'^^^ ^^ 

Total expenditure in 1862 $488,631 12 

1863. 
119 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . . $5,950 00 
2 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 50 00 

121 men, to whom was paid $6,000 00 

Add, expenses of disbui-sing the above '^^ 26 

Total expenditure in 1863 ^^^^'' ^^ 

Total expenditure in 1862 and 1863 $494,648 38 

Recapitnlation. 

1862. 
9,704 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $485,200 00 

1863. 

119 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid ^^^'^^ 00 

dfi2^ men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $491,150 00 

1862. 
51 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid $1,275 00 

1863. 
2 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 50 00 

53 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was iiaid. . . . 1,325 00 

9,823 three years' men. 

9,87'6 total men. to whom was paid $492,47o 00 

Carried forward. 



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Brought forward S492,475 00 

1862. 
Add, for expenses incurred in disbursing the above. . $2,156 12 

18G3. 

Add, for expenses incurred in disbursing the above. . 17 26 

2,173 38 

Total expenditures in 1862 and 1863 $494,648 38 

Kxpenditnres otlier tban for Bounties. 
I 

By the City Authorities, through the Union Defense Committee : 

For the equipment and fitting out of Regiments at the out- 
break of the Rebellion* $1,001,655 31 

For the Relief of Families of Volunteers : 

In 1861 $702,915 69 

In 1862 1,248,165 55 

In 1863 1,634,946 77 

In 1864 1,765,047 05 

In 1865 (thus far) 565,551 14 

Total 5,916,626 20 

Total expenditure $6,918,281 51 



I 



Recapitulation of all Expenses. 

For Bounties $494,648 38 

For Equipment of Regiments, &c 1,001,655 31 

For BeUef of Families of Volunteers 5,916,626 20 

$7,412,929 89 



* It is proper to say that, in addition to this expenditure from the public 
treasury for this purpose, at this time, there were contributed by citizens 
money and articles to the value of about $1,000,000. 



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COUNTY OF NEW YORK. 



Statement of all Men raised in, and to whom Bounty loas paid hy, the 
County of New York, from the 23lh of August, 1863, lohen the County 
Bounty icas first paid, to the I3th of April, 18G5 {inclusive), when 
Becruiting and the Payment of County Bounty ceased. 

Call for 5tli January, 1864, for 300,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York 12,000 men. 



Drafted Citizens Relieved by the Coaiity. 

1,855 men, by substitutes furnished for 3 years, to whom was 

paid $555,437 00 

123 men, by commutation for 3 years, for which was paid 36,900 00 

4 men, by electing to go to the war for 3 years, to whose 

families was paid 1,200 00 

1,982 men, to and for whom was paid $593,537 00 

Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement of 
the above amount 17,548 55 

Total expenditure $611,085 55 

CaU for 10th March, 1864, for 500,000 men, being really a call in 
addition to the above (5th January, 1864) for 200,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York under the whole call, 15,979 
men, being a large reduction of the quota on the additional 
number of men called for, the addition to the call being two- 
thirds, or 200,000 men, and the addition to the quota being 
less than one-third, or, in exact figures 3,979 men. 



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7,995 men, volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid $2,398,500 00 

4,539 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,361,700 00 

Haml-mouey or premiums paid 12,620 00 

12,534 men, to and for whom was paid $3,772,820 00 

Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement 
of the above amount 41,859 00 

Total expenditure $3,814,679 00 



Recapitulation. 

Call for 10th March, 1864, for 500,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York 15,979 men. 

In filling which the County paid the following suras : 

1,855 men, substitutes for 3 years, to whom was paid $555,437 00 

123 men, commutations for 3 years, to whom was paid 36,900 00 

4 men, electing to go to the war, to whom was paid 1,200 00 

7,995 men, volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid 2,398,500 00 

4,539 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,361,700 00 

Hand-money or premiums paid 12,620 00 

14,516* men, to whom was paid $4,366,357 00 

Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement 
of the above amount 59,407 55 

Total expenditure $4,425,764 55 

Call dated March 14, 1864, for 200,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York 7,509 men. 



* It will be noticed that this total falls considerably short of the quota. 
The balance was made up on the call for 5th January, when many drafted 
men furnished their own substitutes, and paid their own commutation, of 
which of course we have no record, nor any means of ascertaining the 
figui-es. There can be no doubt, however, that it averaged $300 per man, 
which, for 1,463 men, would be an additional expenditure for bounties of 
$438,900. 



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In filling which the County paid the following sums : 

3,140 men, army volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid $942,000 00 

1,104 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 358,200 00 

125 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 37,500 00 

556 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . 166,800 00 

1,004 men, naval volunteers, for 2 years, to wliom was paid . . . 200,800 00 

601 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid. . . . 60,100 00 

Hand-money or premiums paid 67,400 00 

6,620 * men, to and for whom was paid $1,832,800 00 

Add, for aU other expenses connected with the disbursement 
ot the above amount 32,271 29 

Total expenditure; $1,865,071 29 

Call dated July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York ^ 23,140 men. 

In filling which the County paid the following sums : 

394 men, army volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid $118,200 00 

7 men, army volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid 1,400 00 

108 men, army volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 17,940 00 

212 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 63,600 00 

13 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 3,900 00 

4 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,200 00 

21 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 3,290 00 

Hand-money or premiums paid 19,940 00 

759t men, to and for whom was paid $229,470 00 

Add for aU other expenses connected with the disbursement of 
the above amount 130,212 46 

Total expenditure $359,082 46 



* * The difiference between this total and the quota was made up by credits 
for 1,186 men, enlisted in the months of August, September, October and 
November, 1863, and 840 re-enlisted veterans, none of whom received any 
County Bounty. 

t The difference of 22,381 men between this total and the quota was made 
up from the following credits, for wliich no County Bounty was paid: 



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Call dated December loth, 18G4, for 300,000 men. 

Quota of the County of New York as assigned December 23d: 

Number demanded in gross (stated as years of service) 36,933, 
deducting from wliich surplus of years on men previously 
furnished, viz., 32,500, leaving ag deficiency, or quota, 4,433 
years of service to be filled by men who might be enlisted 
for one or more years. 

As re-assigned January 24th: 

Number demanded in gross (stated as years of service) 90,701 

Deducting from which surplus of years on men pre- 
viously furnished, which surplus was reduced by 
credits allowed in December, and taken from lis and 
allowed elsewhere in January 27,644 

Leaving years of service due 63,057 



Surplus 31st May, under prior call 1,137 men. 

Naval recruits not paid County Bounty 19,477 men. 

Re-enlisted men not paid County Bounty 621 men. 

Substitutes in anticipation of th^ draft, paid by private indi- 
viduals and not through the County, supposed to be 914 men. 

Averaging two years of service, and costing an average of $300 
per man, making a total cost of $270,000. 

Substitutes in anticipation of draft, paid through the County, 
but not from the County funds 260 men. 

22,409 men. 

The following statement gives the particulars of payments to substitutes 
through the County: 

Substitutes in anticipation of the draft, paid through but not by the 
County: 

34 men for the army, for 3 years, to whom was paid $11,390 00 

2 men for the army, for 2 years, to whom was paid 470 00 

13 men for the army, for 1 year, to whom was paid 3,240 00 

49 men for the army, to whom was paid $15,100 00 

Carried forward. 



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Wliich is divided by three to make the deficiency, or 

quota, being 21,019 men. 

—to be filled by enlistments for either one, two or three years? 

In filling which the.County paid the following sums : 
3,335 men, army volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid $1,045,200 00 

119 men, army volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid 36,800 00 

1,970 men, army volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 551,720 00 

128 men, re-enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid 38,700 00 

2 men, re-enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 540 00 

3 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 1,800 00 

327 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . 188,700 00 

94 men, naval volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid. . . 31,600 00 

10 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 1,410 00 

Hand-money or premiums paid. . . : 452,755 00 

5,988* Total $2,949,225 00 

Carried forward. 



Brought forward 815,100 00 

99 men for the navy, for 3 years, to whom was paid $33,165 00 

7 men for the navy, for 2 years, to whom was paid 1,645 00 

105 men for the navy, for 1 year, to whom was paid 23,895 00 

211 men for the navy, to whom was paid 58,705 00 

49 men for the army. 

260 men, total army and navy $73,805 00 

* In addition to the above there were credited to the County of New York 
on this call, without paj-ment of County Bounty— 

Of re-enlisted men for 3 years, about 100 men. 

Of substitutes, in anticipation of the draft — 
Number to whom bounty was paid, not by but through the 

County 627 men. 

Number to whom bounty was paid by individuals, and not 
thi'ough the County 581 men. 

Total 1,308 men. 

Of the substitutes in anticipation of the draft paid by individuals and not 
tbrough the County, the average is about two years of service, and the 



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Brought forward $2,949,225 00 

AM, for all expenses incurred in the disbursement of the 
above sums^in part estimated, the account not being closed), 
including the expense of the correction of the enrollment, 
say 500,000 00 

Total expenditure $3,449,225 00 



average cost is believed to have been $750 per man, wluch would make a 
total cost of $435,750. 

Of the substitutes paid through the Comity, the following are the partic- 
ulars of years of service and bounty paid : 

491 men, for the army, for 3 years, to whom was paid $402,800 00 

21 men, for the array, for 2 years, to whom was paid 9,520 00 

38 men, for the army, for 1 year, to whom was paid 14,340 00 

550 men for the army, to whom was paid $420,660 00 

C4 men, for the navy, for 3 years, to whom was paid $59,000 00 

12 men, for the navy, for 2 years, to whom was paid 6,385 00 

1 man, for the navy, for 1 year, to whom was paid 220 00 

77 men, for the navy, to whom was paid 65,005 00 

550 men for the army. 

627 Total for the annrand navy $492,265 00 



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Average Cost per Man. 

For bounties $246 76 

For bounties and band-money 261 43 

For bounties and band-monej-, and other expenses connected with 

bounties , 280 58 

For bounties and hand-money, and other expenses connected with 
bounties, including expenses for equipment and Family Relief 
Fund 463 80 

Average Cost per Year of Service. 

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For boimties and hand-money 92 53 

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bounties 99 32 

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YEARS 

KXLIHTED 

FOR. 


NUMBER 
OF MEN. 


TOTAL. 


YEARS OF 
SERVICE. 


TOTAL. 


Call for Marcii 10, 1864. . . • 


3 years . . . 

3 years.. . 
2 years. . . 


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118 


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Call of December 19, 1864.. 
Call of December 19, 1864.. 


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YEARS 

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NUMBER 
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TOTAL. 


YEARS OF 
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TOTAL. 


Prior to July 2, 1862 


2 years. . . 

3 years... 

2 years . . . 

3 years... 

2 years.. . 


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53,554 
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100 

74,778 


107,108 


107,108 
3 078 


CaU of March 14, 1864 


1,026 

19,477 
621 


3,078 


Call of July 18, 1864 

Call of July 18, 1864 


38,954 
1,863 


40,817 
200 


Call of December 19, 1864. 


100 


200 












151,203 















228 



Recapitulation showing tlie whole number of Men, with years ot service, paid and not 

paid Bounty. 





men. 


TOTAL. 


YEARS OP 
SERVICE. 


TOTAL. 


Four Years' Men. 
Call of Mar 14, 1864 — Paid County Bounty. . . 




125 

13 

3 




500 
52 
12 




" July IS, 1864 " " 










" Dec 19 1864 " " 














141 


'37,662 

4,389 


564 


Three Years' Men. 

1862, and prior to August, 1863— Paid City 
Bounty 


9,823 
1,982 


29,469 
5,946 

41,991 

17,748 

4,092 
13,035 


Call for Jan. 5, 1864 Paid County Bounty.. . 






" Mar. 10, 1864— " " 


12,534 
1,463 




" '' —Paid Individual Bounty 










13,997 






Call of Mar. 14, 1864— Paid County Bounty. . . 
" " —Paid no Bounty.. 


4,890 
1,026 


14,670 
3.078 












5,916 






" July 18, 1864— Paid County Bounty. • . 
" " —Paid Individual Bounty 
" " —Paid no Bounty 


610 
133 
621 


1,830 
399 

1,863 
















1,364 






" Dec. 19, 1864 -Paid County Bounty. . . 


3,790 
555 


11,370 
1,665 




" •• —Paid Individual Boiinty 








4,345 


37,427 










112,281 


Two Years' Men. 
Prior to July 2, 1862 — Paid no Bounty.. . . 


53,554 
1,004 


107,108 
2,008 

40,814 

1,854 


Call of Mar." 14, 18G4— Paid County Bounty. . . 
" July 18,1864— " 
" " —Paid Individual Bounty 
" " —Paid no Bounty 


..... 

923 
19,477 










14 

1,846 
38,954 
















20,407 






" Dec. 19, 1864— Paid County Bounty. . . 
'• " — Pain Indiviihial Bounty 
" "■ — Paid no Bounty 


213 
614 
100 


426 

1,228 
200 












927 


75,892 










151 784 


One Year Men. 
1862, and prior to August, 1863— Paid City 


53 
601 


53 
601 

247 

2,021 




Call of Mar. 14, 1864— Paid County Bounty.. . 










" July 18, 1864— " •' 


129 
118 




129 
118 




" '• —Paid Individual Bounty 








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" Dec. 19, 1864— Paid County Bounty. . . 
" '• —Paid Individual Bounty 


1,982 
39 


1,982 
39 










2,021 


2,922 










2 922 










Total 


116,382 


267,552 













229 



Eecapithlation of whole number of Men, and years of service. 



For 4 years. 
For 3 years. 
For 2 years. 
For 1 year. . 
Total. 



116,382 



MJMBER 


TEARS OP 


OF MEN. 


SERVICE. 


141 


664 


37,427 


112,281 


75,892 


• 151,784 


2,922 


2,922 



267,551 



Recapitulation of Kxpenditores for all Pirrposes. 

Amount paid in bounties $9,317,612 00 

Amount paid in premiums 552,715 00 

Total for bounties and premiums $9,870,327 00 

Expenses incurred in payment of bounties 724,064 68 

Total expenditures connected with bounties $10,594,391 68 

Expenses not connected with bounties 6,918,281 51 

Total expenditures $17,512,673 19 



Average Cost to the Public Funds of all Men enlisted in the City and County 
of New York during the War. 

Average Cost per Man. 

For bounties '• $80 06 

For bounties and hand-money 84 81 

For bounties and hand-money, and other expenses connected with 

bounties ^1 ^^ 

For bounties and hand-money, and other expenses connected with 
bounties, including expenses for equipments and Family Relief 
Fimd 150 47 



230 



Average Cost per Year of Service. 

For bounties 34 82 

For bounties and hand-money 36 89 

For bounties and band-money, and other expenses connected with 

bounties.. 39 60 

For bounties and hand-money, and other expenses connected Avith 
bounties, including expenses for equipments and Family Relief 
Fund...., 65 45 



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STATEMENT 



ALL EXPENDITURES 



BY THE CITY AND COUNTY ON ACCOUNT OF THE WAR. 



REPORT OF THE COUNTY TREASURER. 



BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 

FEBRUARY 27, 1866. 



The following Report of the Special Committee on Volumeering, ap- 
proving of the Report of the County Treasurer relative to the Expendi- 
tures of the City and County of New York on account of the war, was re- 
ceived and the resolution attached thereto adopted. 

JOSEPH B. YOUNG, 

Clerk. 



EEPOET. 



The Special Committee on Yolunteering, to whom were 
referred the annexed resolution and accompanying papers 
in regard to payments made to the County Treasurer on 
account of the war, respectfully 

REPORT : 

That they have carefully examined the same, and be- 
lieve the statement to be correct. 

It is a matter entirely under the direction and control 
of the County Treasurer, but needs the approval of the 
Board in order to comply with the requirements of the 
statute. 

Your Committee would ace .rdhigly recommend for 
adoption the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the statement of the County Treasurer, 
in regard to pavments on account of the war, by the 
County cf New York be, and it is hereby, approved by 



238 

the Board of Supervisors, and the Clerk directed to cer- 
tify the same, attach thereto the seal of the Board, and 
transmit the same to the Superintendent of the Bureau 
of Military Statistics. 

February 27, 1866. 

ORISON BLUNT, ) Special Committee 

WM. R. STEWART, V on 

WILLIAM M. TWEED, ) Volunteering. 



I^pptli^, 



COMMUNICATION. 



City op New York — Department op Finance, 
Bureau of Deposit and Disbursement, 
County Treasurer's Office, 

February 19, 1866. 

Gentlemen of (lie Board of Supervisors 

of the County of New York : 

In compliance with a circular, which is hereunto an- 
nexed, issued by the Bureau of Military Record to the 
various County Treasurers of this State, in pursuance of 
chapter 690, Laws of 1865, requesting information, with 
full particulars of all expenses incurred by the County 
of New York for war purposes, I have the honor to sub- 
mit the annexed statements for your approval, as requir- 
ed by the eighth section of the Act above referred to : 

" And it shall be the duty of Boards of Supervisors to 
examine, and if correct, to formally approve these state- 
ments of the County Treasurers ; and if incorrect, to 
cause them to be corrected and filed in the Bureau of 
Military Record.'' 

The books, showing in detail all loans and expenditures 
of the City and County of New York, are in the custody 
of the Comptroller, and kept by his direction. I am 

IS 



242 

therefore indebted to the courtesy of that officer for the 
said statements, which have been compiled by his 
order. 

I am also under obligations to the Hon. Orison Blunt, 
Chairman of the Committee on Volunteering, for much 
valuable information in relation to this subject. 

Respectfully submitted, 

DANIEL DEYLIN, 

County Treasuren 



OIEOULAR. 



State of New Yoek, 
Bureau of Military Record 
Albany, November 
Dear Sir— 



K, ) 

3C0RD, V 

—1865.) 



In pursuance of chapter 690 of the Laws of 1865, 1 
submit herewith a blank for the statistical and other in- 
formation which, by the Act, is required of your county. 

Accompanying this blank are memorandums that give 
such figures as have been already furnished this bureau 
by your county. These, if correct, can be inserted in the 
proper places in your return. 

That the plan of the blank may not be misunderstood, 
I submit below, in a supposed case, the manner of filling 
up the statement, under paragraph I. : 

Statement of Money raised by 07^ in helialf of the Co^mty^ 
hy tax or otherwise, on the property thereof, for purposes 
connected with the luar, independent of toion taxes for war 
purposes : 

Whole amount borrowed by the Board of Super- 
visors or by the County Treasurer, in advance 



244 



of specific authority of the Legislature, in 

1861 $4,500 

Amount raised by Goimty tax in 1862 1,745 

1863 4,400 

« « 1864 7,345 

« . " 1865 27,450 

Note.— This total includes aU sums raised by direct County 
tax, and paid for bounties, support of soldiers' families, &c. ; and 
includes also the amount raised to pay matured and maturing 
principal and interest of bonds issued by the County for war 
purposes f 45,44P 

Amount raised by loaning the County's 

credit in 1862 $3,500 

Amount raised by loaning the County's 

credit in 1863 6,400 

Amount raised by loaning the County's 

credit in 1864.... 10,250 

Amount raised by loaning the County's 

credit in 1865 17,500 

Total amount raised by County loans 

for war purposes $37,650 

Deduct, amount of County bonds paid 
from proceeds of County tax, as above, 
viz : 

Principal of County bonds paid 
in 1862 $1,000 

Amounts carried for ward... $1,000 $37,650 $45,440 



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Amounts brought forward.. $1,000 $37,650 $45,440 

Principal of County bonds paid 

in 1863 3,000 

Principal of County bonds paid 

in 1864 5,000 

Principal of County bonds paid 

in 1865 9,000 

Deduct, amount re-imbursed by i 

the State for bounties in 1865. 9,100 

$27,100 

Leaving of principal of County bonds 

still unpaid $10,550 

$10,550 

Gross amount of money raised by the County 
for war purposes • $55,990 

The several Supervisors of your County have been 
called upon for a statement of the money borrowed on 
town bonds, and the amounts raised by town tax, and ex- 
pended by the several Supervisors, under direction of 
the Town Board, for war purposes. You will, therefore, 
omit from your statement everything that Avas not strictly 
a county tax or a county obligation ; and if the towns at 
any time have assumed any part of tue county's war 
debt, or refunded to the county any portion of the amount 
raised by county tax, deduct from the " gross amount of 



246 

money raised by tlie county for ivar purposes " the amount 
thus assumed or paid by the towns. 

The returns from the County Treasurer and the Super- 
visors of each town will be brought together, by me, on 
one sheet. In order that the several sums thus furnished, 
when united, shall show exactly what has been paid for 
war purposes (exclusive of sums re-imbursed) by the 
•whole people of your county, acting both in their town 
and their county capacities, and no more,it will be neces- 
sary for you to discriminate with great care between 
town and county expenditures, embracing, of course, in 
your report the former only. 

It is especially requested that your statements of money 
raised by taxes, loans, and otherwise, on the property of 
the county, and of the expenditures for war purposes, be 
prepared Avith as particular reference to detail, and with 
as strict accuracy and fullness, as though the Govern- 
ment was about to refund the money paid by the county, 
and that the statement now called for was to be used as 
the basis of the settlement. 

Omit from your statements all money raised by volun- 
tary subscription, unless such sums were afterward for- 
mally assumed by the county, and have been refunded to 
the subscribers thereto, as the Act contemplates only 
what has been raised by county tax, or borrowed on the 
credit of the county. 



247 

It is intended to embrace in the next report from this 
Bureau to the Legislature, the statistics furnished by you 
and other County Treasurers, and by Supervisors, and to 
that end it is hoped your statement will be returned 
to the undersigned in conformity with the requirement 
of the law without delay. 

I am, with much respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

LOCKWOOD L. DOTY, 

Chief of Bureau. 
, Esquire, 

County Treasurer of the County of . 



Chapter 690. 
AN ACT 

IN RELATION TO THE BUREAU OP MILITARY STATISTICS, 

Passed May 11, 1865, three-fifths being present. 

The People of the State of New York, represent&ji in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section 1. The title of the Bureau of Military Statis- 
tics shall hereafter be the Bureau of Military Record, and 

by that name it shall be known. 

* * * * * •jfr * 

Sec. 5. Blanks for a detailed statement of moneys 
raised and of moneys paid for every purpos^ connected 



248 



with the war, by towns, cities and counties, as well bj^- 
loans as by tax, classified by years and objects, the num- 
ber of men raised under the several calls of the Presi- 
dent, the number of men to whom bounty has been paid, 
and the rate of bounty per man, together with such other 
information as falls within the cognizance of officers of 
towns, cities or counties, shall be prepared by the Chief 
of the Bureau of Military Record, and distributed to such 
officers. 



Sec. 7. To the end that the record above required of 
Town Clerks may be complete, it shall be the duty of 
Supervisors to afford all necessary information, so far as 
they may be capable of doing so, to the Town Clerks, 
and if the town records in the keeping of Town Clerics 
do not show such fact, they shall add or cause to be 
added opposite the name of each soldier or officer the 
amount of bounty paid to him by the town, or by the 
county, if the county bounty was disbursed through the 
Supervisor. And it shall be the duty of the Supervisor 
to furnish to the Bureau of Military Record a detailed 
statement of moneys raised and paid by the town, the 
aggregate number of men furnished thereby, and such 
other facts as may properly be required of Supervisors, 
on his being furnished with the blanks provided for in 
section five of this act. 

Sec. 8. it shall be the duty of County Treasurers to 



249 

furnish to the Chief of the Bureau of Military Record a 
statement of the amount of moneys raised by tax and by 
loans, the amount expended for every purpose connected 
with the war, classified by years and by objects, together 
with particulars about loans ; and it shall be the duty of 
the Board of Supervisors to examine, and if correct, to for- 
mally approve these statements of the County Treasurers, 
and if incorrect, to cause them to be corrected and filed 
in the Bureau of Military Record. 



Sec. 10. Supervisors, County Treasurers, and officers 
of cities, or persons employed by the Mayor and Common 
Councils for that purpose, shall be entitled to a reason- 
able compensation for their services and expenses in 
performing the duties devolved upon them by the pro- 
visions of this Act, to be paid by their respective towns, 
counties, or cities, in the same manner as other town, 
county, or city charges. 



COUNTY TEEASUEER'S REPORT. 



City op New York — Department op Finance, ) 
Comptroller's Office, December 30, 1865. j 

To the Chief of tht Bureau of Military Record 

of tlw State of New Jorh : 
Sir- 
As required by chapter 690 of the Laws of 1865, en- 
titled " An Act in relation to the Bureau of Militar}' Sta- 
tistics," I furnish below, for the Bureau of Military Rec- 
ord, a detailed statement of the moneys raised by taxes 
and by loans, and the amount expended by the City and 
County of New York for every purpose connected with 
the war, classified by years and by objects, together with 
particulars about loans, about the payment of bounties, 
and the re-imbur semen t of bounty moneys by the State, 
during the war of the Rebellion ; that is to say, from April 
15, 1861, to the date of this statement, inclusive. 

I. — Moneys I'aised hy Taxes, Loans, and otherivise, on tlw 
property or credit of tJie City and County. 

Statement of moneys raised by or in behalf of the City 
and County, by tax or otherwise, on the property thereof, 
for purposes connected with the war, independently of 
City and County taxes for war purposes, namely : 



251 



Whole amount borrowed by the Board of Supervisors, or by 
the County Treasurer in advance of specific authority by 

the Legislature in 1861 

Amount raised by City Tax in 1862 $609,709 03 

" " 1863 705,69196 

" " 1864 $1,146,687 43 

Amount raised by County Tax in 1861 149,102 55 

1,295,789 OS 

Amount raised by City Tax in 1865 $781,533 37 

Amount raised by County Tax in 1865 559,301 82 

1,340,835 19 

Total $3,952,026 16 

Amount raised by loaning the City's credit in 1861 $1,395,570 00 
" " " 1862 1,533,100 00 

Amount raised by loaning the City's 

credit in 1863 $1,956,900 00 

Amount raised by loaning the 

County's credit in 1863 2,370,100 00 

4^327,000 OU 

Amount raised by loaning the City's . 

credit in 1864 $1,627,000 00 

Amount raised by loaning the Coun- 
ty's credit in 1864 5,572,700 00 

7,199,700 00 

Amount raised by loaning the City's 

credit in 1865 $639,500 00 

Amount raised by loaning the Coun- 
ty's credit in 1865 2,056,700 00 

2,696,200 00 

Total amount raised by City and County loans for war purposes $17,151,570 00 

$21,103,596 16 

Principal of City bonds paid in 1862 $500,000 00 

" " " 1863 500.000 00 

" " " 1864 895,570 00 

" " " 1865 500,000 00 

2,395,570 00 

Gross amount of money raised by the City and County for 
war purposes. ..^ $18,708,026 16 



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Total amount of City and County bonds issued $17,151,570 00 

Deduct amount of bonds redeemed as follows : 

City bonds paid from tax as above $2,395,570 00 

County bonds paid from proceeds of State bonds 

sold, and other funds than taxes 1,913,000 00 

4,308.570 00 

Principal of City and County bonds stUl unpaid $12,843,000 00 



n. — Paid hy, tJie City and County. 

There was paid out by the City authorities for support of families of Sol- 
diers— 

Inl861 $702,915 69 

In 1862 1,248,165 55 

In 1863 1,685,122 31 

In 1864 1,766,333 35 

Inl865 563,174 83 



$5,965,711 73 

There was paid by the City and Couhty for bounties, and for recruiting 
fees, hand-money, and other objects connected with enlistments : 

In 1861. 
For bounties 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses 

For amount expended by the City through the "Union De- 
fense Committee," for aid to sundry regiments $665,220 00 

1862 

For bounties, by the City 486,475 02 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the City 3,131 10 

1863. 

For bounties, by the City $6,000 00 

For bounties, by the County 1,282,800 00 



For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the City $17 26 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the 
County 172,540 57 



1,288,800 00 



172,557 83 



Amount carried forward. „ $2,610,183 95 



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Amount brouglit forward $2,616,183 95 

1864. 

For bonnlies, by the County 5,419,400 00 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses, by the 
County 481,176 63 

1865. 

For bounties, by the County 2,125,000 00 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses, by the 
County 728,387 75 

Whole amount of City and County bounty paid during the war. $11,370,148 33 

Rate of bounty paid by the City and County (per man) : 

In the year 1861 

Number of men paid at above rate in 1861 -. 

In the year 1862 (City), for one year $25 00 

" " " three years 50 00 

Number of men paid at above rate in 1862 : 
For one year 51 

For three years 9,704 

9,765 

In the year 1863 (City), for one year $25 00 

" " " three years 50 00 

Number of men paid at above rate in 1863 : 

For one year 16 

For three years 112 

128 

9,883 

In the year 1863 (County), for tliree years. $300 00 

Number of men paid at the above rate in 1803 4,276 

In the year 1864 (County), for one year — $100 00 

" " " " 170 00 

" " " " .... 270 00 

Number of men can-ied forward 4,276 9,883 



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Number of men brought forward 4,276 9,883 

In the year 1864 (County) , for two years . . . $200 GO 
" " " for three years. . 300 00 

" " " for foxu" years... 300 00 

Number of men paid at the above rates in 1864 : 

Foroneyear $100 00 733 

" " 170 00 178 

" " 270 00 2 

913 

Fortwoyears 200 00 1,066 

For three years 300 00 16,869 

For four years 300 00 138 

18,986 

In the year 1865 (County), for one year 100 00 

" " " " " . . . . 300 00 

" '' " for two years. . . 200 GO 

" " '* " "... 400 GO 

" " " for three years. . 300 00 

" " " " " . . 600 00 

" " " for four years... 600 00 

Number of men paid at above rates in 1865 : 

For one year $100 00 44 

" " 300 00 1,755 

1,799 

For two years 200 GO 29 

" " 400 00 129 

158 

For three years 300 00 209 

" " 600 00 2,452 

2,661 

For four years 600 00 3 

4,621 

27,883 

Total number of men paid bounty by the City and County 37,766 



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EECAPITULATION. 

"Whole amount paid by the City and County during the war, classified as 
follows : 

For bounties $9,984,895 00 

Less amount received from the State 200,000 00 

$9,784,895 00 

For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses con- 
nected with enlistments 1,385,253 33 

For support of families of soldiers 5,965,711 73 

For interest on City and County loans 1.556,456 16 

For cash on hand 15,709 94 ^ 

Making gross amount raised by City and County for war pur- 
poses $18,708,026 16 



CONDITION OF THE BOND ACCOUNT. 

Total loans by the County $9,999,500 00 

Eeceived from the State, cash 8200.000 00 

" " bonds 1,946,000 00 

2,146,000 00 

Amount refunded $32.040 40 

Eeceived interest on State bonds ($1,213,000) sold 37,435 14 

69,475 54 

$12,214,975 54 

By bounties paid by the County $8,827,200 00 

By recruiting fees, hand-money, expenses, &c.. . 1,382,104 95 . 

By County bonds paid ofif. 1,913,000 00 

12,122,304 95 

$92,670 59 
Amount advanced from County Treasury in anticipation of 
the sale of State bonds 640,329 41 

State bonds unsold December 30, 1865 $733,000 00 



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III. — Statement of City and 



TITLE OF BONDS. 



DATE 

OP 

ORDINANCE 



ACT OP 
LEGIS'R. 



CITY. 



Union Defense Fund 

Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund 

" No 2 

Volunteer Soldiers' Bounty Fund , 

Union Defense Fund Redemption 

Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund, No. 3 

" '' " 4 

Volunteer Soldiers' Bounty Fund Redemption 

Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund Redemption . 
Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund, No. 5 

" " " 6 



7. 

8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 



COUNTY. 



Soldiers' Substitute Bounty Fund 

Soldiers' Substitute and Relief Fund — 
Soldiers' Substitute Bounty Redemption. 



Soldiers' Substitute and Relief Redemption. 
Soldiers' Bounty Fund 



Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 2 

Soldiers' Bounty Fund Redemption, No. 2. 
Soldiers' Bounty Fund, No. 3 . . . 



Total City and County bonds issued 

Less, amount fuaded and paid as above . 

Amount outstanding Dec. 30, 1865. 



April 23,'f 1 
July 17, " 
Dec. Ki, " 
Sept. 2, 'G2 
Mav 3. '• 
•June IS, " 
Nov. IS, " 
Sept. 18,'(i3 
May 1!», '05 
Feb. 28, '63 
June 10, " 
Oct. 9, " 
Feb. 9. '01 
May 20, '' 
AU!I. 10, " 
Nov. 29, " 
Mar. 24, '65 



Oct. 31, '03 

Aug. 28, " 

May 4, '64 



211802 

2l '• 



7 

7 

7*11 



Feb. 17. '04 



Mar. 18, '04 



June 25, '61 

May 3, '65 
Jan. 10, '05 



1S03 

18G2 
1863 



1864 



1805 



257 



County Loans for War Purposes. 



■WHEN 
PAYABLE. 



Mav 1, 1862 

July 1,1862 

Feb. 1, 1863 

Oct. 1, 1863 

Nov. 1, i864 

July 1, 1865 

Nov. 1,1865 

'' 1867 

" )868 

" 1869 

" 1870 

" 1871 

" 1872 

'' 1873 

" 1874 

" 1875 

" 1876 



June 1, '64 

Sept. 1, '64 

Nov. 1,1873 

" 1874 

" 1875 
" 1876 
" 1880 
" 1881 
" 1883 
" 1884 
•' 1885 
" 1886 
" 1887 
" 1888 
" 1889 
" 1890 

June 1, '65 

Nov. 1,1891 
" 1895 
" 1896 
" 1897 



AMOUNT 
ISSUED. 



$1,000,000 00 
500.000 0' 
500.000 00 
500,000 00 
895.570 00 
500,000 00 
500,000 00 
490,000 00 
500,000 00 
600,000 00 
509,000 00 
500,000 00 
500,000 00 
500.000 00 
600,000 00 
600,000 00 
266.500 00 



2,000,000 00 
946,700 00 
500,000 00 
500.000 00 
500,00(1 00 
500.000 00 
600,000 00 
446,700 00 
500,000 00 
600,000 00 
600,000 00 
500,000 00 
500.000 00 
500,000 00 
500,000 00 
500,000 00 

1,641,500 00 

376,600 00 
500.000 0(1 
500.000 00 
411,300 00 



$22,474,870 00 
9,631,870 00 

$12,843,000 00 



17 



$11 00 



2 96 



8,236 20 

15,000 00 

120 00 

9 00 



47,760 86 
1,904 95 

• 118,683 75 



REMARKS. 



Funded, payable Nov. 1, 1864. 
Raised by tax paid July 1, 1802. 
'' " Feb. 1, 1863. 

Funded, payable Nov. 1, 1867. 
Raised by lax paid Nov. 1, 1864. 
Funded,"payable Nov. 1, 1868. 
Raised by tax paid Nov. 1, 1865. 



Funded payment 1873, '74,'75 & '76. 
Funded payment 1880 and 1881. 



) Funded paym't, 1891 $376,600 00 
\ Paid off 1,264,900 00 

3339,000 00 paid off. 

91,000 00 '^ 

218,100 00 ' 



t9it^ 



258 

Sundry rxvenses incurred hy the City and Comity of Kew York, in conse- 
qamce of the War of the Rebellion, in addition to the foregoing. 

Sundry expenses paid by the City in 18G1 Sr).0G3 -16 

" " " " 1862 45,678 20 

" " " " 1863 11,353 28 

" " " " 1861 91,521 13 

" " " " 1865 65,431 51 

$223,047 58 

Riot damages paid by the County in 1803 $713,589 33 

" " . " 1864 643,560 80 

" " " 1865 159,731 38 

1,516,881 51 

$1,730,929 09 



It is hereby certified by the undersigned, City Cham- 
berlain and County Treasurer of the County of New 
York, that the foregoing detailed statement contains a 
full and complete account of all moneys raised and paid 
by the said City and County for every purpose connected 
with the war, classified by years and by objects, the num- 
ber of men to whom bounty has been paid, and the rate 
of bounty per man, together with particulars about loans, 
and the re-imbursement of bounty moneys by the State ; 
which statement is made in pursuance of an Act passed 
by the Legislature of the State of New York, approved 
May 11,' 1865, entitled '"An Act in relation to the Bureau 
of Military Statistics." 

Dated at New York, this ) 
19th dav of Feb., 1866. j 

DANIEL DEVLIN, 

City Chamherlahi and County Treasurer 

of the said County of New York. 



